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PREFACE. 



The following papers were written shortly after my pub- 
lication of the 'Annotated Edition of Hymns Ancient and 
Modern/ Among the many kind judgments passed upon 
that work, more than one expressed regret that so much 
labour should have been exclusively given to one collection 
of hymns. Moreover, I became sensible of many errors and 
defects in my former work. These were chiefly pointed 
out to me by correspondents, though I must gratefully 
acknowledge the helpful criticism bestowed on my work by 
the reviewer in the Church Choirmaster and Organist. While 
most of my reviewers were content simply to praise my 
work, only one (so far as I know) assailing it with unmixed 
censure, 1 the Church Choirmaster showed me where and how 
I was wrong. On several points, the following pages will be 
found to set right such mistakes as I have detected in the 
1 Annotated Edition/ I much regret that I have not been 
able to wait for the appearance of the enlarged hymnal of the 
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. I should also 
have been glad to publish with these articles a reprint of the 
' Songs of Other Churches/ the series now appearing in the 

1 The AthencBum, whose reviewer must have been strangely ignorant of 
the subject of hymnology. Will it be credited that he supposed me to be 
the sole compiler of * Hymns Ancient and Modern/ that he accused me 
of undervaluing Keble because I quoted Lord Nelson's statement that 
some versions altered by the author of the ' Christian Year/ which had 
been given in the ' Salisbury Hymn-Book/ would be found, with the 
original text restored, in the enlarged and revised edition? But most 
wonderful of all, I am charged with ' flunkeyism/ because I have men- 
tioned the Prince Consort's love for the hymn, t Rock of Ages/ in the 
note where reference is made to translations of it in German. 



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Monthly Packet, and which, I hope, will, on their completion, 
i be presented separately. 

Among recent hymn-books deserving of notice, perhaps the 
most interesting is the ' American Church Hymnal' now au- 
thorized by the General Convention of the Protestant Episco- 
pal Church of the United States. It is a large collection, 520 
hymns ; yet evident care has been used to exclude anything 
objectionable. Unfortunately, the arrangement of the hymns 
according to their subjects is not very clearly made out, nor 
very consistently maintained. Moreover, it is burdened with 
a larger proportion of the old-fashioned psalmody than would 
now be quite acceptable to the altered tastes of our own 
English congregations. 

The question has recently been raised, how far it would 
be expedient to authorize a single hymnal for the use of the 
English Church. I cannot help feeling that such a step 
would be most injurious to the interests of the Church. In 
the first place, it would be impossible to satisfy all parties 
in the Church without extending the collection far beyond 
the usual limits. This would increase the expense of print- 
ing and binding, and prevent the book from being a cheap 
one, in spite of the enormous number of copies which would 
be required. Next, it is obvious that the work could not be 
compulsorily introduced everywhere at once without manifest 
injustice to those who had recently adopted other books. 
Some years must be allowed, as for the introduction of the 
New Lectionary, and when these were expired, the book would 
already require an appendix. Again, difficulties about copy- 
right would arise, and would prove almost insuperable. A 
small compensation may suffice from a compiler whose work, 
after all, will probably have but little effect in diminishing 



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the sale of the older hymn-book. But the question is wholly 
altered when we have to deal with compilers whose work is 
to render all books that have previously appeared useless 
and worthless. 

A compromise might possibly be made in the following 
manner. Such of our older hymns as could be reprinted 
without question as to copyright might be authorized by 
Convocation for use wherever they would be acceptable. 
Gaps might be left in the numbering of these, and it might 
be ordered that after a certain date no new hymnal should 
be introduced into any church unless its hymns, correspond- 
ing in number to the authorized hymns, were identical with 
them, and distinguished in type, if this were thought neces- 
sary, from the other hymns. Thus for special occasions it 
would be easy to select hymns which would be identical in 
number in the several different collections, and when addi- 
tional hymns were authorized, they might fall into their 
places between the others. The first set of authorized hymns 
might be numbered by tens; the next might be 5, 15, 25, 
etc. Both authorized and unauthorized hymns might be in- 
creased in number without disturbance of the original book, 
and without the drawback of appendix or supplement My 
apology for suggesting this plan must be the difficulties 
which would surely attend any attempt to establish an 
authorized hymnal in the ordinary way. 

The numerous correspondents who have helped me in the 
compilation of this book will, I hope, accept my sincere 
thanks for their kind and welcome aid. 

Chickerell, Weymouth, 

S. Bartholomew s Day, 1872. 



The Reprint of the " Songs of Other Churches " will be published 
as soon as One Hundred Copies are subscribed for y at Six Shillings 
per Copy. Subscriber? names received by Rev. L. C. Biggs, 
Chickerell, Weymouth. 



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INTRODUCTORY.— MORNING AND EVENING HYMNS. 

The general revival of Church hymns forms a most interesting 
feature in the great restoration which God is now being pleased to 
work in our holy English Church. We are placed in the midst of a 
great and still increasing spiritual movement ; we are living in an age 
which shows itself active to renew, not merely the sculptured tracery, 
the external beauty, of the Church's fabric, but also the ancient 
graving of her doctrines, the towering harmony of her praise. And 
though in some details the waywardness of man may have marred 
the noble work, yet surely its existence and advance must be matters 
of deep thankfulness to us all. Nor is the luxuriant and fruitful 
growth of our hymnology by any means a small part of these bless- 
ings. Hymns possess a wonderful power, for evil or for good : — 
for evil, when they are made the vehicle of false teaching, as they 
were by the early heretics ; l — for good, when they attune men's 
hearts to thankfulness and praise, and meanwhile unite them, in the 
bonds of peace and truth, more closely with the Head of the 
Church. 

It is the purpose of the present series of articles briefly to review 
the best of our English hymns, glancing incidentally at anything 
which may help to illustrate them, assigning them, as far as possible, 
to their sources, and noticing where the hymns, as generally known, 
materially differ from the original compositions of their authors. The 
hymns which it is intended to consider will be chiefly those adapted 
to form a part of public worship, though some of them may perhaps 
be regarded as more suitable for private devotion. The classification 

1 Especially by Bardesanes the Gnostic, and later by Arius and Apollinarius . 
Instances nearer home are not wholly wanting. 

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will follow, with few variations, the order of the subjects contained in 
the Book of Common Prayer, reserving to* the last the consideration 
of i General Hymns.' In justification of such an arrangement, we 
may quote the language of Archdeacon Wordsworth : ' A Hymn-book 
of the Church of England may perhaps best be described as a com- 
panion to the Book of Common Prayer.' In the first place, then, 
parallel with the Order for Morning and Evening Daily Prayer, 
would be found hymns for the different hours of the day, and days 
of the week. It seems to be the especial province of morning and 
evening hymns to note the passing phenomena of sunrise or sunset, 
and turn them to spiritual account. Springing from individual obser- 
vation, their natural expression is usually singular. This is exempli- 
fied in Bishop Ken's well-known morning and evening hymns. It is 
related that he often sang his morning hymn, before dressing, to his 
lute — probably to the tune known as Tallis's Canon. The exact 
text of these and of his midnight hymn, as they were first written, 
may be seen in Mr. Daniel Sedgwick's edition of Ken's hymns, or in 
Anderdon's Life of Ken, published by Pickering. The version in 
Sir Roundell Palmer's ' Book of Praise ' contains the author's latest 
corrections, many of them apparently made to improve the position 
of accented syllables. Thus : — i Glory to Thee,' is in two places 
corrected to ' All praise to Thee; ' ' Influenced by the Light Divine/ 
to i By influence of; 1 ' ye Angelic Host,' (in the Doxology,) to 'ye 
heavenly Host.' In the Evening Hymn, the last two lines of the 
third stanza are altered from 



and given thus — 



* Teach me to die, that so I may 
Triumphing rise at the last day.' 



1 To die, that this vile body may 
Rise glorious at the awful day.' 



The address to the Guardian Angel is changed into a prayer for 
his protection. In the midnight hymn, the only material changes 
are in the first two stanzas. 

Perhaps the best known morning and evening hymns, after those 
of Bishop Ken, are taken from the first two poems of the Christian 



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Year. There is no doubt that some years intervened between their 
composition and their publication in 1827. For the full understand- 
ing of those verses which are sung in church, it will be found very 
useful to become thoroughly familiarized with the rest, especially the 
introductory verses, which raise the soul to the realization of the 
feelings expressed in the hymn. The true difficulty of actually 
feeling and entering into the spirit of the morning hymn is, that so 
few persons are really familiar with sunrise in summer, and that for 
so many the ' Hues of the rich unfolding morn,' the ' rustling breeze/ 
the ' fragrant clouds of dewy steam,' are indeed but wasted ' treasures 
of delight.' If only we had more experience of these things, if they 
greeted us hastening early to the sanctuary of God, we should gain 
much more from our daily lives. But evening hymns are more real 
to us, because they refer to a time when we are more frequently alive 
to the beauties of nature. 

As a hymn for morning and evening, perhaps there is none which 
surpasses Mrs. Alexander's, 'The roseate hues of early dawn.' The 
authoress has given a somewhat less happy version of it as an even- 
ing hymn in ' Hymns, Descriptive and Devotional.' A ' Morning or 
Evening Hymn,' by Dr. Watts, has acquired some celebrity — ' My 
God, how endless is Thy love/ — but it seems less fitted for public 
than for private worship. His morning hymn, (from Psalm xix.) 
6 Behold the morning sun/ was once very popular in the modified 
form in which Mr. Hall presented it in the ' Mitre Collection.' 
Two morning hymns by Charles Wesley are well known. The first, 
■ Christ, Whose glory fills the skies/ will be found in Wesleyan 
collections with an entirely different first verse, beginning, ' O dis 
close Thy lovely Face/ — the hymn in them beginning, ' Christ, 
Whose glory fills the skies/ not being a morning hymn, nor in the 
same metre. Wesley's other morning hymn, ' Forth in Thy Name, 
O Lord, I go/ is only appropriate for week-day use. The following 
hymn, by the Rev. Thomas Davis, may be new to some of our 

readers. 

' With Thee, Lord, will I walk by day, 
And thankful praise, and trustful pray ; 
Nor hope from sorrow to be free, 
Save as I know repose in Thee. 



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' To Thee, on each returning night, 
My soul shall wing her peaceful flight ; 
And this my morning joy shall be, 
That, waking, I am still with Thee. 

* With Thee, the Source of life and light, 
And joys unnumbered, infinite, 
Through this fair world, and all on high, 
That light and deck the midnight sky. 

c When days and nights have passed away, 
And breaks the one Eternal Day, 
O give me, Lord, to wake, and be 
Still, and for evermore, with Thee.' 

Of translated hymns for the morning, the most noticeable is Miss 
Winkworth's beautiful version of Heinrich Albert's ' ® o 1 1 be3 <§tm* 
mel§ uxti ber @tben. ; The first line is the same as that of an evening 
hymn, (the composition of Bishop Heber, to which Archbishop 
Whately added another verse,) ' God, Who madest earth and 
heaven :' — the two have sometimes been confounded together. It is 
worthy of notice that Archbishop Whately's stanza is evidently an 
adaptation of the Compline Antiphon : — ' Salva nos, Domine, vigi- 
lantes, custodi nos dormientes, ut vigilemus in Christo, et requies- 
camus in pace.' ' When morning gilds the skies ' is by the Rev. E. 
Caswall, given in his Lyra Catholica as a translation from ' ©elofct 
fei) 3efu3 G^tifV; but I have quite failed to trace the original 
German. i Now that the daylight fills the sky/ is Dr. Neale's trans- 
lation from, ' Jam lucis orto sidere/ written by S. Ambrose. It is 
improved in the Sarum Hymnal, where it begins, ' While now the 
daylight fills the sky.' The two Sunday morning hymns from the 
Paris Breviary l have supplied us with two excellent English hymns 
— i Morn of morns, and Day of days/ translated by Sir H. W. Baker, 
and, c Now morning lifts her dewy veil/ translated by I. Williams and 
J. Chandler; the latter borrowing much from the translation of the 

1 ' Die dierum principe,' and * Ad templa nos rursus vocat.' It must be remem- 
bered that the Paris Breviary hymns have no claim to antiquity, having been 
mainly composed in the eighteenth century by Santeul and Coffin. Yet, as Dr. 
Newman says, they ' breathe an ancient spirit ; and even where they are the work 
of one pen, are the joint and invisible contribution of many ancient minds.' 



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former. The Ambrosian hymn, ' Splendor Paternae Gloriae,' has been 
well translated by Chandler, whose version appears, slightly altered, 
in ' Hymns, Ancient and Modern,' — ' O Jesu, Lord of Light and 
Grace/ Dr. Wordsworth's Sunday Morning Hymn, ' O Day of rest 
and gladness,' in spite of one or two weak stanzas, is exceedingly 
beautiful; its second stanza commemorates the threefold joy of the 
Day — the creation of Light, the Resurrection of the Lord, the gift 
of the Spirit — even more successfully than Sir H. W. Baker's hymn, 
' On this Day, the first of days.' l ' This is the day of light,' by Rev. 
John Ellerton, is also a good Sunday morning hymn. There are 
some beautiful verses in Miss Elliot's hymn, beginning — 

'Thou glorious Sun of Righteousness, 

On this day risen to set no more, 
Shine on me now to heal, to bless 
With brighter beams than e'er before.' 

It will be found in Mr. Snepp's ' Songs of Grace and Glory/ ' Again 
the Lord's own Day is here,' altered from ' The Sunday morn again 
is here,' is Dr. Neale's translation from ' En Dies est Dominica,' a 
mediaeval hymn of singularly rugged and uncouth structure. The 
daily hymn for the third hour in the Roman and Sarum Breviaries, 2 
has been translated by Dr. Newman as follows : — 

' Come, Holy Ghost, Who ever one 
Art with the Father and the Son ; 
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls possess 
With Thy full flood of holiness. 

' Let mouth, and heart, and flesh combine 
To herald forth our Creed Divine ; 
And love so wrap our mortal frame, 
Others may catch the living flame.' 

' O God of truth, O Lord of might,' 3 and c O God of all the strength 
and power/ 4 are much altered in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern ' from 

1 From a Le Mans Breviary hymn, { Die parente temporum.' 

2 Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritus. The version given above is copied from the 
Translator's MS. , and is materially altered in the small volume of poems in which 
it was reprinted in 1853. It originally appeared in ' Tracts for the Times, ' 1836, 

3 Rector potens, verax Deus. 4 Rerum Deus tenax vigor. 



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Dr. Neale's hymns for the sixth and ninth hours. ' As the sun doth 
daily rise/ is given in the Sarum hymnal as a translation from King 
Alfred's ' Matutinus altiora.' ' The radiant morn hath passed away ' 
is by the Rev. Godfrey Thring, written as an afternoon hymn. 

Of Evening hymns, after those of Bishop Ken and Keble, few 
would refuse the highest place to the Rev. H. F. Lyte's hymn, 
- Abide with me ! fast falls the eventide/ written within two months 
of the author's death at Berry Head. The original has eight verses. 
Faber's evening hymn, i Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go,' is beau- 
tiful ; as are also Edmeston's lines, beginning, ' Holiest, breathe an 
evening blessing;' and Joseph Anstiee's hymn, ' Father, by Thy 
Love and Power.' Thomas Kelly's, ' Through the day Thy love 
hath spared us,' finds a place in most hymn-books ; but it is difficult 
to imagine how we can really sing in church the second line, ' Now 
we lay us down to rest. 1 Dr. Neale's translation from a Greek hymn 
of S. Anatolius, 1 ' The day is past and over,' suits a week-day evening 
best. His rendering of the daily compline hymn in the Roman 
Breviary, 3 ' Before the ending of the day/ is far surpassed by Bishop 
Mant's version, ' Ere the waning light decay.' The hymn, i As now 
the sun's declining rays/ translated from the Paris Breviary hymn 
for the ninth hour, 3 has been much improved from Rev. J. Chan- 
dler by the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern.' Some- 
what similar in subject is Caswall's translation from an original, now 
unfortunately lost, 4 'The sun is sinking fast.' Dr. Neale's 'O Trinity 
of Blessed Light' is taken from an Ambrosian evening hymn. 5 
' Three in One, and One in Three' by the Rev. Dr. Gilbert 
Rorison was written in 1850 for his church at Peterhead. It is 
altered in later collections, and is founded on parts of two Roman Bre- 
viary hymns, c Tu Trinitatis Unitas/ and 'Jam sol recedit igneus.' 
'At even, ere the sun did set' is by the Rev. Henry Twells. The 
hymn ' O Father, Who didst all things make ' first occurs in the 
Rev. William Beadon Heathcote's Prayers for Children, published 

1 Tr)i> Tjfxipav dceXOwv. 2 Te, lucis ante terminum. 

3 Labente jam solis rota. 4 Sol prseceps rapitur, proxima nox adest. 

5 O Lux Beata, Trinitas. 



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in 1846. A morning hymn on the same framework is given in this 
book. The original doxology in both runs thus : — 

* "Praise be to Father ; praise to Son ; 
Blest Spirit, equal praise to Thee : 
Glory to God, the Three in One ; 
Glory to God, the One in Three.' 

1 Hail gladdening Light ' is translated from the Greek of S. Atheno- 
genes 1 (who died in 175 a.d.), by Rev. J. Keble. It originally 
appeared in ' Lyra Apostolica.' ' Saviour, again to Thy dear Name 
we raise/ by Rev. John Ellerton, and Canon Bright's i And now the 
wants are told, that brought/ are written for the close of evening 
service. We extract from ' The Rock/ the following verses by Mr. 
William Ouin, as possibly deserving a place in our hymnals. 

' To Thee we come, our Saviour dear, 
For now the night of rest is near ; 
Oh ! let Thy wings of mercy, Lord, 
A safe protection us afford ! 

* Oh ! watch us through the hours of night, 
Till we again behold the light ; 
Then be with us throughout the day, 
And guard us, lest from Thee we stray. 

6 And when the night of death shall come, 
When here our earthly task is done ; 
Oh ! Saviour, in Thy Gracious Love, 
Receive us in Thy Arms above ! ' 

We do not possess many Sunday evening hymns of the highest 
order. Two translations by the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and 
Modern ' may be noticed : one from the Sunday vespers hymn in 
the Paris Breviary, 2 ' Great God, Who, hid from mortal sight ; ' the 
other, 3 ' Blest Creator of the Light,' taken (with some few lines from 
Chandler's translation) from the corresponding hymn in the Roman 
Breviary. We cannot very deeply regret that W. Mason's Sunday 
evening hymn, ' Soon shall the evening star, with silver ray,' has 
been omitted in most of the hymn-books now in use. Though it may 

1 <£cDs IXapov, 2 O Luce Qui mortalibus. 3 Lucis Creator optiem, 



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be truly poetical, it can hardly be called truly devotional. Miss Wink- 
worth has very successfully translated Stegmann's Sunday evening 
hymn, 1 ' Abide among us with Thy Grace/ and her lines would 
doubtless have been more generally known if Keble and Lyte had 
not already paraphrased the text on which they are founded. 2 

The Paris Breviary hymns for nocturns of the week-days 3 have 
been fairly rendered into English by the compilers of * Hymns 
Ancient and Modern/ (in Hymns 25-30,) but their work is in some 
small measure founded on previous translations. The consideration 
of hymns appropriate for Friday will come under that of hymns for 
Holy Week. On Saturday, Isaac Williams's rendering of the Paris 
Breviary hymn for Saturday at vespers, 4 ' Great Mover of all hearts, 
Whose Hand/ may be sung ; or the hymn adapted from Rev. T. 
Whytehead's ' Seventh Day of Creation/ and which begins, ' Resting 
from His Work to-day/ The author of this hymn, after a brilliant 
career at Cambridge, died young in New Zealand, where he was one 
of the first missionaries. 

1 2ldfj Metfc m\t £>etner ©ncite. 2 St. Luke xxiv. 29. 

8 Dei canamus Gloriam, [Monday) : — Jubes, et in praeceps aquis, [Tuesday)-. — 
Miramur, O Deus, Tuse, {Wednesday) :— Isdem creati fluctibus, {Thursday) : — 
Jam sanctius moves opus, {Friday) : — Tandem peractis, O Deus, {Saturday). 
Charles Coffin is the author of all these. 

4 Supreme Motor cordium. 



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II. 

HYMNS FOR THE FESTIVALS FROM ADVENT TO 
SEPTUA GESIMA. 

The greatest and noblest of our English hymns will be found 
thickly clustered round our two highest festivals, Christmas and 
Easter. Some of them belong to the two preparatory seasons of 
Advent and Lent ; others naturally attach themselves to the festivals 
in the two periods of forty days which follow. We have at present 
to deal with the Christmas group of hymns. 

Advent has given the key-note to many of the hymns which have 
come down to us from ancient times. Among these, the first in rank 
is certainly Thomas of Celano's c Dies Irae.' Sir Walter Scott's free 
imitation of it, ' That Day of Wrath, that dreadful Day/ has more of 
the spirit and tone of an English hymn than most of the more literal 
translations. The version in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern' is by Dr. 
Irons. 1 Dean iVlford has less successfully rendered it in the version 
beginning, s Day of anger, that dread Day.' Isaac Williams has a 
much better translation, 'Day of Wrath ! that awful Day.' The Earl 
of Roscommon's translation is good. Some stanzas of it, beginning 
' The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound,' are given in Bickersteth's 
and Hall's collections. Abp. Trench has given an exceedingly 
literal translation, beginning ( Oh that day, that day of ire.' It could 
hardly be employed as a hymn for English use, and parts of it 
would scarcely be understood by a person unacquainted with the 
original. Versions in several languages may be found in Daniel's 
Thesaurus Hymnologicus.' The original belongs to the fourteenth 
or fifteenth century, and is noticeable as an early example of a Latin 

1 Altered in the first and last verses. In the first, for Dr. Irons's ' See once 
more the Cross returning,' (from ' Crucis expandens vexilla,') is substituted 'See 
fulfilled the prophet's warning,' (from the true reading, ' Teste David cum 
Sibylla ;')— in the last verse, for 'Grant us Thine eternal Rest,' is given, 'Grant 
themj more literally translating ' Dona eis Requiem.' 



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Hymn in which the singular number is used throughout. The popular 
hymn, ' Lo ! He comes with clouds descending/ is based on John 
Cennick's imitation of 'Dies Irae,' published in 1752. Charles 
Wesley in 1758 wrote two hymns, from which the first two and the 
last stanza of those usually given in our hymn-books are taken. He 
also wrote the verse — 

' The dear tokens of His Passion 
Still His dazzling Body bears ;' 

but these two, ' Every island, sea, and mountain,' and ' Now Re- 
demption, long expected,' are by Cennick. Wesley's last stanza 
ends with a line softened in most of our collections — 

1 J ah, Jehovah ! Everlasting God, come down.' 

An anonymous Latin versification of some of those Christmas 
antiphons which begin with O Sapientia, appears, much improved 
from Dr. Neale's rendering, in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern' : — 
'O come, O come, Emmanuel.' 1 On the other hand, Chandler's 
beautiful translation from the Advent nocturns hymn in the Paris 
Breviary, 2 has there been altered without apparent reason. The 
original begins thus — 

' The Advent of our God 
Our prayers must now employ, 
And we must meet Him on His road 
With hymns of holy joy.' 

The two other Paris Breviary hymns for Advent given in ' Hymns 
Ancient and Modern/ are, 'On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry,' 3 
and 'When shades of night around us close;' 4 the former altered 
from Chandler, the latter translated by the compilers. One of the 
best verses of Chandler's is omitted : 

1 * Veni, veni, Emmanuel.' The original is in a French missal of the twelfth 
century. The antiphons represented by its five verses are the seventh, third, 
fifth, fourth, and second, respectively. 

2 Instantis Adventum Dei. 3 Jordanis oras praevia. 

4 In noctis umbra, desides. 



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' E'en now the air, the sea, the land, 
Feel that their Maker is at hand ; 
The very elements rejoice, 
And welcome Him with cheerful voice.' 

These three hymns were all written by Charles Coffin. ' Creator 
of the starry height/ 1 and ' O heavenly Word, eternal Light/ 2 are 
translations by the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern p from 
two Sarum and Roman Breviary Advent hymns. 

Caswall has most successfully rendered one of the Ambrosian 
Advent hymns, 3 'Hark ! a thrilling voice is sounding.' The popular 
Advent hymn, 'Great God ! what do I see and hear!' is an imita- 
tion from Bartholomew {not Benjamin) Bingwaldt. 4 The author of 
the first English stanza is unknown; it was given in 1812 by 
Dr. Collyer with three additional stanzas of his own, the first two 
of which have been transferred with alterations to our present hymn- 
books. Miss Winkworth has beautifully rendered Rist's glorious 
Advent hymn, 5 'Arise, the kingdom is at hand!' Freylinghausen's 
hymn, of somewhat later date, 6 is known to us in Miss Cox's version, 
' Wake ! the welcome Day appeareth !' Two of Heber's Advent 
hymns, 'The Lord will come! the earth shall quake V and 'In 
the sun and moon and stars/ attained some popularity, though less 
deservedly than his grand lines — 

'The Lord of might from Sinai's brow 
Gave forth His Voice of thunder.' 

Mrs. Alexander's hymn, 'When Jesus came to earth of old,' is 
exceedingly beautiful. ' Hark ! the glad sound ! the Saviour comes/ 

1 Conditor alme siderum. 

2 ' Verbum supermini prodiens, 

A Patre olim exiens.' 
It must not be confounded with S. Thomas Aquinas' s Eucharistic hymn, which 
borrows its first line. 

3 En clara vox redarguit. 

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is by Philip Doddridge. Dr. Wordsworth's ' See, He comes ! Whom 
every nation ' deserves to be better known ; as do also Sir Edward 
Denny's 'Hope of our hearts ! O Lord, appear/ and Dr. Monsell's 
' Praise the Lord ! rejoice, ye Gentiles!' ' O quickly come, dread 
Judge of all' is a beautiful hymn by Lawrence Tuttiett. Of Dr. 
Bonar's somewhat numerous Advent hymns, perhaps the best are 
' A few more years shall roll' and ' Come, Lord, and tarry not' 
W. H. Bathurst's ' Angels, from your blissful station ' is an unsuc- 
cessful parody of Montgomery's Christmas Eve hymn noticed 
below. Jane Crewdson's 'Oh, for the peace that floweth as a 
river' begins well, but almost breaks down in the later stanzas. 
Charles Wesley's ' Thou Judge of quick and dead ' is very slightly 
but very judiciously altered in i Hymns Ancient and Modern,' less 
sparingly in the Sarum Hymnal. 

For S. Andrew's Day, (Nov. 30,) Mrs. Toke's 'Jesus calls us o'er 
the tumult' is appropriate. For S. Thomas's Day, (Dec. 21,) may 
be used Neale's 'We have not seen, we cannot see.' 

For Christmas Eve we have Madan's variation of Wesley, 1 ' Hark ! 
the herald angels sing,' Nahum Tate's 'While shepherds watched 
their flocks by night,' and James Montgomery's magnificent hymn, 
'Angels from the realms of Glory.' John Cawood wrote the lines 
beginning, 'Hark! what mean yon holy voices?' The Paris 
Breviary hymn for nocturns of Christmas Day 2 may be appro- 
priately sung on the midnight which ushers in the festival. It may 
be questioned whether the compilers of 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' 
have improved upon the Rev. James Russell Woodford's original 
rendering — 

1 God from on high hath heard, 
Let sighs and sorrows cease ; 
The skies unfold, and lo ! 
Descends the gift of Peace.' 



1 Wesley's original begins thus — 

' Hark ! how all the welkin rings, 
Glory to the King of kings.' 

2 * Jam desinant suspiria,' by Charles Coffin. 



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Isaac Williams's translation will be seen to be from its metre scarcely 
so well fitted for church use : — 

1 Away with sorrow's sigh, 
Our prayers are heard on high ; 
And through Heaven's crystal door, 
On this our earthly floor, 
Comes meek-eyed Peace to walk with poor mortality.' 

Of very high merit is the following — 

4 It came upon the midnight clear, 
That glorious song of old ;' 

though it is perhaps rather a carol than a hymn. The author is 
Edmund H. Sears, an American poet. 

Of our translated hymns for Christmas morning, the most notice- 
able are the various renderings of ' Adeste, fideles,' a hymn probably 
not older than the fifteenth century. We owe to Canon Oakeley the 
most popular of these, though his first line, 'Ye faithful, approach 
ye,' has often been altered. 1 That in the Salisbury Hymn-Book is 
the most regular in structure, and probably due in part to the 
Rev. J. Keble. It begins, 'Draw nigh, all ye faithful, joyous and 
triumphant.' Dr. Neale's rendering, 'Be present, ye faithful, joyful 
and triumphant,' is less poetic. John Byrom's Christmas hymn, 
' Christians, awake ! salute the happy morn/ is most familiar to us 
in a shortened form : there are sixty lines in the original. Bp. 
Christopher Wordsworth's Christmas morning hymn, ' Sing, O sing 
this blessed Morn/ is very beautiful, though too long. 

One of our earliest Christmas hymns comes from the ninth in 
the Cathemerinon of Prudentius, 2 which begins with a few lines 

1 In the S. P. C. K. Collection and ' Hymns Ancient and Modern' it is given 
' O come, all ye faithful.' In Master's Hymns and Introits the original first line is 
retained, but there are alterations in the rest of the hymn. 

2 ' Da, puer, plectrum, choreis ut canam fidelibus 
Dulce carmen et melodum, gesta Christi insignia.' 

Its title is * Hymnus omni hora.' 



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unsuitecl for a church 'hymn. The largest selections from it have 
been made in the Hereford Breviary, and translated by Sir H. W. 
Baker, who has, however, adopted some lines from Dr. Neale. His 
version begins, ' Of the Father's Love begotten, ere the worlds 
began to be.' 1 Sir H. W. Baker has also given in 'O Christ, 
Redeemer of our race,' a translation of an Ambrosian Christmas 
hymn, 2 less literal than the Rev. W. J. Copeland's version — 

* Jesu, Redeemer, from on high, 

Who, ere the daylight shone, 

Sole Offspring of His Majesty, 

Art with the Father One.' 

The Christmas hymn, ' High let us swell our tuneful notes/ which 
crept into Tate and Brady's supplement about 1810, is by Philip 
Doddridge. 

For S. Stephen's Day we have the translation of Jean Baptiste 
Santeul's Paris Breviary hymn, 3 given in i Hymns Ancient and 
Modern ' — 

1 First of martyrs, thou whose name 
Doth thy golden crown proclaim.' 

The allusion is here to the meaning of the Greek name 2re<j)avos a 
crown. Adam of S. Victor had written similarly in his sequence for 
S. Stephen's Day :— 4 

* Thou by name a Crown impliest ; 
Meetly then in pangs thou diest 

For the Crown of Righteousness ! ' 

and S. Anatolius appears to have the same idea, 5 which is perhaps 
glanced at in Heber's hymn for this festival, ' The Son of God goes 
forth to war.' ' Jesu, Lord, Thy praise we sing,' is a translation by 

1 Corde natus ex Parentis ante mundi exordium. 
2 Jesu Redemptor omnium. 3 O Qui tuo, dux martyrum. 

4 ' Heri mundus exsultavit,' translated in 'Yesterday with exultation,' a scarcely 
English version founded on Dr. Neale. 

5 In his hymn, T£ BaaiXe? Kal Aeairorri, translated by Dr. Neale. 



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the Rev. H. H. Wyatt from an original which I have not been able 
to trace. It was first published in the translator's ' Psalms and 
Hymns for Public Worship.' 

For S. John the Evangelist our grandest hymn is that written by 
Mr. Keble in 1857 : 'Word Supreme, before creation,' founded 
partly on two ancient sequences. 1 An altered form of Caswall's 
translation from an anonymous hymn in the Cluniac Breviary, 2 ' The 
Life which God's Incarnate Word,' appears in ' Hymns Ancient and 
Modern.' 'An exile for the Faith' 3 is also partly his, but properly 
belongs to the lesser Commemoration of S. John (as a Martyr) on 
May 6th. 

For the Holy Innocents' Day we have several translations of 
Prudentius's 4 hymn : — Dr. Kynaston's rendering is perhaps the 
most poetical. It begins — 

c Hail, Martyr sweets deflowered, 

On morning's lintels cast, 
Like blossoms thickly showered 
Before the icy blast. ' 

The Venerable Bede has a hymn more fitted for church use; 5 the 
translation in 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' is altered from Dr. 
Neale's. But the best hymn for this festival, 'Glory to Thee, O 
Lord/ was contributed by Mrs. Toke in 1853 to the first S. P. C. K. 
Hymn-Book. 

For the Circumcision, two Paris Breviary hymns 6 have been 
taken from Chandler's translation for ' Hymns Ancient and Modern' — 
' O Blessed Day, when first was poured,' and ' The Word, with God 
the Father One/ The latter is originally an Epiphany hymn. In 
the translation, (by the compilers of the book,) which begins, 'The 

1 'Verbi vere substantivi, ' by Adam of S. Victor, and 'Verbum Dei, Deo 
natum.' 

2 Quae dixit, egit, pertulit. 
3 From * Jussu tyranni pro Fide,' (Paris Breviary,) by Nicholas le Tourneaux. 

4 Salvete flores martyrum. 5 Hymnum canentes martyrum. 

6 'Felix Dies, quam proprio,' by the Abbe Besnault, and 'Verbum Quod ante 
specula.' (Anon.) 



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ancient law departs/ 1 something more than the metre has been 
caught from Keble's poem, i The year begins with Thee.' We owe 
to the Rev. Henry Downton a beautiful hymn for New Year's Eve, 
' For Thy Mercy and Thy Grace;' and to the compilers of 'Hymns 
Ancient and Modern/ ' The year is gone beyond recall/ the nocturns 
hymn for the Circumcision in the Meaux Breviary. 2 Some hymns 
for the 'Name of Jesus/ (August 7th,) may be sung on this day. 
Among these may be mentioned 'Conquering kings their titles 
take/ altered from ' 'Tis for conquering kings to gain/ J. Chandler's 
translation from an anonymous hymn 3 in the Paris Breviary. A 
favourite hymn in Germany for the Name of Jesus 4 is that which 
Dr. Neale has translated, ' To the Name that brings salvation/ which 
the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern' have adapted in 'To 
the Name of our Salvation.' 'Let every heart exulting beat' 5 is a 
translation from a Sarum Breviary hymn by J, D. Chambers, 
Recorder of Salisbury. 

One of our most popular hymns for the Epiphany, 'Earth has 
many a noble city/ is also one of the oldest, being taken from the 
Cathemerindn of Prudentius : — it is altered from CaswalFs transla- 
tion. The significance of the wise men's gifts is skilfully unfolded in 
the fourth verse. Coelius Sedulius has left us an Epiphany hymn, 6 
which Dr. Neale has translated, 'Why, impious Herod, vainly 
fear. ; Two Epiphany hymns in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern ' have 
been altered by Mr. Keble — the first, 'The Heavenly Child in 
stature grows,' 7 from a translation by J. Chandler ; the second, 
' Hail to the Lord's Anointed,' from James Montgomery. Rist's 
Epiphany hymn 8 is well rendered by Miss Winkworth, ' All ye 
Gentile lands, awake!' In .Mrs. Alexander's 'The wise men to 
Thy cradle throne,' and Bishop Heber's ' Brightest and best of the 

1 From 'Debilis cessent elementa legis/ in the Paris Breviary, by the Abbe 
Besnault. 

2 ' Lapsus est annus ; redit annus alter/ (Anon.) 
3 Victis sibi cognomina. 4 Gloriosi Salvatoris. 5 Exsultet cor praecordiis. 

6 'Herodes hostis impie/ or, 'Crudelis Herodes, Deum/ in Roman Breviary for 
Vespers. 

7 « Divine crescebas Puer/ Paris Breviary. 8 2£etbe fictyt, bu &tctit fcer «£eifcen. 



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sons of the morning,' some may perhaps take exception at the 
apostrophe to the guiding star. One of the best Epiphany hymns, 
' The people that in darkness sat/ is taken from ' The race that 
long in darkness pined,' written by John Morrison as a paraphrase 
on Isaiah ix. 6, 7. Dr. Wordsworth's Epiphany hymn, i Songs of 
thankfulness and praise,' is very beautiful, as are also Harriet Auber's 
'Bright was the guiding star that led,' and W. C. Dix's 'As with 
gladness men of old.' ' Thy kingdom come, O God,' is one of the 
best of the Rev. L. Hensley's hymns. The following translation, by 
Dr. Neale, from one of the hymns in the Paris Breviary for the week 
after Epiphany appeared in print for the first time in the original 
issue of these articles : — 

' Lo ! crowds of mourners press 
To show their evil deeds, 
Where in Judaea's wilderness 
The Lord's Forerunner pleads. 

' The Lamb of God draws nigh ; 
The Holy 'midst the impure ; 
The Lamb of God, so soon to die 
Our pardon to assure. 

' Beneath that fleshly veil 
The Baptist knows his Sun : 
How can he dare, or what avail 
To cleanse the Holy One ? 

1 O Baptist, 'tis thy part 
To cleanse alone the flesh ; 
He sends His Spirit on the heart 
To hallow it afresh.' 

The Doxology has been left untranslated in Dr. Neale's MS. 
The original hymn, ' Clamantis ecce vox sonans/ is by Nicholas 
Le Tourneaux. ' What star is this with beams so bright/ is John 
Chandler's translation from a hymn by Charles Coffin, c Quse Stella 
sole pulchrior.' 

For the Conversion of S. Paul, (Jan. 25,) we find several hymns 
applying to him Jacob's prophecy concerning his tribe of Benjamin, 1 

1 Gen. xlix. 27. 



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especially two from the Paris Breviary — the Rev. Francis Pott's 
'The shepherd now was smitten/ 1 and the Rev. J. Chandler's 
"Gainst what foemen art thou rushing?' 2 The same idea will be 
found in ' To-day in Thine Apostle shine/ Dr. Wordsworth's 
hymn for this day. 

For the Purification, (Feb. 2,) we have the hymn, ' Blest are the 
pure in heart/ (taken partly from the Christian Year,) and Caswall's 
translation from the Paris Breviary, 3 ' O Sion, open wide thy gates.' 
There are several other renderings of this hymn \ but on the w T hole 
we have certainly fewer hymns for this festival than we should expect 
to find. 

1 Pastore percusso, minas. 
2 Quos in hostes, Saule, tendis. 3 Templi sacratas pande, Syon, fores. 




III. 

HYMNS FOR SEPTUAGESIMA, ETC.— FOR LENT, AND FOR 
HOLY WEEK. 

The commemoration of God's creating the world in perfect beauty 
and purity, marred so soon after by the fall of man, occupies our 
hymns at Septuagesima. With the remembrance of our first parents' 
sin comes the necessity to suspend the joyous Alleluias of Christmas : 
and the Sequence of Godescalcus may fitly be used as a ' farewell to 
Alleluia.' It is admirably given, with easy and expressive music, in 
' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' where Dr. Neale's version has been 
adopted almost unaltered. It begins ' The strain upraise of joy and 
praise, Alleluia ! ' l Very familiar to us are those other words of the 
same translator, ' Alleluia, song of sweetness,' 3 which so beautifully 
contrast the often interrupted strains of earthly praise with the 
undying ' triumph song' of that ' true Jerusalem and free' which is 
1 the Mother of us all.' 3 To the same purpose, but with less poetry, 
speaks the Paris Breviary hymn, by Charles Coffin, 4 known to us in 
the version based on J. Chandler's translation, ' Creator of the world, 
to Thee/ Isaac Williams has rendered very successfully another of 
this author's hymns from the same Breviary, 6 O Lord, in perfect 
bliss above.' 5 Chandler's version, i Thou, great Creator, art pos- 
sessed,' is given in the Sarum Hymnal. The Septuagesima poem of 
the Christian Year, ' There is a book, who runs may read,' was 
written at least as early as 1819, eight years before its publication, 
■ Jesus is God, the solid earth/ is part of a beautiful hymn on the 
Creation, by Faber. For Sexagesima may be used several hymns on 
the Parable of the Sower, which forms the Gospel for this day :— 

1 ' Cantemus cuncti melodum nunc Alleluia !' It occurs in a Stuttgart Breviary. 
2 ' Alleluia, dulce carmen.' — Magdeburg Breviary. Author unknown. 
3 Gal. iv. 26. 4 Te laeta, mundi Conditor. 

Rebus creatis nil e^ens 



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perhaps the most popular of them is by the Rev. John Cawood, — 
* Almighty God, Thy Word is cast/ Heber's hymn on the same 
subject is too little known ; it begins, 6 O God, by whom the seed is 
given.' 

The Rev. Lewis Hensley's hymn for Sexagesima, i How brief the 
story of man's first estate/ ends with a stanza descriptive of the 
' better Eden/ which has some beauty \ — 

1 The Tree of Life shall bear the whole year long, 
And crystal founts with living water flow : 
No note of sadness mingle with the song 
Of saints who fear no curse, no death, no woe.' 

For Quinquagesima we have a beautiful hymn by Bishop 
Wordsworth, ' Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost/ and Bishop Mant's 
hymn, 6 Holy Spirit, in my breast/ besides I. Williams's translation 
from Charles Coffin's Paris Breviary hymn, 1 ' Great Mover of all 
hearts, Whose Hand/ — all illustrating the Collect and the Epistle 
for the day. In i How blest were they who walked in love/ their 
translation of Coffin's i Vos ante Christi tempora,' the compilers of 
' Hymns Ancient and Modern ' have availed themselves of both 
Williams's and Chandler's versions. 

Lent brings us a great mass of ancient hymns, of which our trans- 
lators have, to speak generally, scarcely produced satisfactory 
renderings. The old Ambrosian vespers hymn 2 reads much better 
in Drummond's version than in Dr. Neale's, ' O Maker of the world, 
give ear/ improved in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern 'to ' O merciful 
Creator, hear,' which is the same as Drummond's first line. The 
second verse in Drummond is perhaps the best : — 

'Thou mildest Searcher of the heart, 
AY ho knowest the weakness of our strength, 
To us forgiving grace impart, 
That we may seek Thy Face at length.' 



1 ' Supreme Motor cordium. ' See p. 8. There is a much better translation of 
his hymn by J. R. Woodford in the Sarum Hymnal. 

2 ' Audi, benigne Conditor.' This hymn is also ascribed to Prudentius and 
Gregory. See Daniel, Th. Hymn, I., 179. 



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Bishop Doane's S. M. version of this hymn, ' Father of mercies, 
hear/ is given in the Sarum Hymnal. Of the Sunday matins hymn, 
by S. Ambrose, 1 Dr. Neale's altered version, c By precepts taught of 
ages past/ is perhaps the most successful. Caswall's, l Now with the 
slow revolving year/ is deficient in dignity ; Chambers's, ' In solemn 
course, as holy lore/ is spoilt by such stilted language as ' Curtail 
superfluous mirth.' The Sarum Breviary Vespers hymn for Midlent 
Sunday, 2 ' Behold the accepted time appear/ is much better rendered 
by the same translator. Dr. Neale's version begins ' Lo ! now is our 
accepted day/ and is given with alterations in \ Hymns Ancient and 
Modern/ Caswall's rendering of the Roman Breviary hymn for 
lauds, 3 'When darkness fleets, and joyful earth/ is a beautiful 
morning hymn for Lent. Chandler's translation from the Paris 
Breviary Lent hymn for lauds, 4 ' The solemn season calls us now/ 
is much improved in t Hymns Ancient and Modern ' — i Once more the 
solemn season calls/ ' Christian, dost thou see them/ 5 imitated by 
Dr. Neale from S. Andrew of Crete, is given with some improve- 
ment, and the omission of the last verse in ' The People's Hymnal/ 
•'And wilt Thou pardon, Lord/ is Dr. Neale's translation from S. 
Joseph of the Studium. 6 The Stuttgard Breviary contains a hymn 7 
which the Rev. John William Hewett has well translated, ' O Thou 
Who dost to man accord/ Copeland's translation of the Quadra- 
gesima vespers hymn in the Sarum Breviary, ' O Christ, that art 
the Light and Day/ 8 deserves to be mentioned ; — it is much altered, 
and on the whole improved, in i Hymns Ancient and Modern.' From 
the German we have one grand hymn of Crasselius, 9 'Awake, O man, 
and from thee shake/ in Miss Winkworth's translation, but the peculiar 
metre in which it is written, prevents its being widely adopted. 

Of Lent Hymns, originally written in English, one of the oldest is 

1 Ex more docti mystico. 

2 'Ecce tempus idoneum/ ascribed to Gregory. 3 O sol salutis, intimis. 

4 Solemne nos jejunii 

5 Ov yap {3\ew€L$ tojjs rapdrrovras. 6 TQv afiapTi&v /ulgv rr\v ir\7}dvv. 

7 ' Summi Largitor prasmii.' In the Annotated Edition of ' Hymns Ancient and 

Modern, ' I have wrongly ascribed this hymn to Gregory. 

8 Christe, Qui Lux es et Dies. 9 (Stroctcty, Sftenfcty, tttoatyt. 



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John Market or Marckant's Humble Lamentation of a Sinner, ' O 
Lord, turn not Thy Face from me.' Bishop Heber's altered version 
of it 1 lacks much of the fire and spirit of the original. A hymn by 
the Rev. J. D. Carlyle, 'Lord, when we bend before Thy Throne/ 
has lost much by the omission of two stanzas, which, though not of 
equal merit with the rest, are necessary to the plan of the hymn, 
which seeks for hope in answer to confession ; for faith to assist our 
prayers^ and to make us feel that they are heard, even though denied ; 
and for love to tell us that God is our Father, in answer to our 
hymns. The omitted verses are as follows : — 

' When our responsive tongues essay 

Their grateful hymns to raise, 
Grant that our souls may join the lay, 
And mount to Thee in praise. 

' Then, on Thy Glories while we dwell, 

Thy mercies we'll review ; 
Till Love Divine transported tell 
Our God 's our Father too.' 

This hymn was a favourite one, as it appears, of Lady Flora 
Hastings, and being found in her handwriting, was, after her death, 
wrongly ascribed to her. Heber has a beautiful Lent hymn, ' Lord 
of mercy and of might/ 2 Some of the concluding stanzas of a poem 
in 'The Baptistery,' by I. Williams, have found a place in many of 
our hymn-books. They begin, i Lord, in this Thy mercy's Day,' 
and are taken from ' Image the twentieth ; — The day of days, or the 
Great Manifestation.' The Canterbury Hymnal has an excellent 
emendation of the last line, i Lest we never see Thy Face/ i Out of 
the deep I call ' was written by Sir H. Baker for the ' Appendix to 
Hymns Ancient and Modern.' For the same collection Caswall him- 
self altered his hymn, beginning ' If there be any special thing ' into 
the much more suitable ' O Jesu Christ, if aught there be.' ' Weary 
of earth, and laden with my sin/ is from the Rev. S. J. Stone's Lyra 

1 Given in Sir Roundell Palmer's * Book of Praise.' 
2 Two versions of it are given in his own collection, one for the Circumcision, 
the other for Quinquagesima. 



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Fidel in ni. Only the last two lines are materially altered. The new 
version of the Fifty-first Psalm, i Have mercy, Lord, on me,' has 
three stanzas (1, 2, and 10) which form a Lent hymn in several 
collections. Other verses have been selected, but not very happily, 
by the S. P. C. K., and in ' Hymns Fitted to the Order of Common 
Prayer/ Anstice has a hymn on the Temptation of our Lord, which 
we may be surprised not to find more generally inserted in hymn- 
books, ' Lord, in the desert bleak and bare/ A poem, of which 
the original appeared in l The Penny Post/ Vol. VI., p. 60, 1 has 
supplied the material for the beautiful hymn, ' Forty days and forty 
nights/ Miss Ada Cambridge has written a hymn which ought to 
become popular, in spite of some blemishes of expression : — l Humbly 
now, with deep contrition.' We cannot tell on what grounds Greville 
Phillimore's awkward lines, 'Not for three or four transgressions,' 
have been admitted into the Sarum Hymnal. We must only mention 
three more general hymns for Lent : — ' Thy Works, not mine, O 
Christ,' by Dr. Bonar, — l Saviour, when in dust to Thee,' by Sir 
R. Grant, (largely altered in most collections) — and, 'In sorrow 
and distress,' by Bishop Wordsworth. For the Fifth Sunday in 
Lent, regarded as ' Passion Sunday,' perhaps the most appropriate 
hymn is one varied from Cow r per's ' The Saviour ! what a noble 
flame,' by W. J. Hall, ' Oh, what unbounded Zeal and Love/ It is, 
however, too much altered. The best known of our ancient hymns 2 
for this day is due to Venantius Fortunatus ; and its most popular 
translation is by Dr. Neale, ' The Royal Banners forward go/ ' Jesu, 
grant me this, I pray,' is Sir H. Baker's translation from a Latin 
hymn 3 about which Daniel can give no information as to author- 
ship, date, or source. 

There is a beautiful American hymn by the Rev. Charles William 
Everest, M.A., of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, ' Take up 
Thy cross, the Saviour said/ first printed in 6 Visions of Death, and 
other Poems,' 1833. The following is a faithful copy of the original 

1 The initials there given are those of the Rev. George Hunt Smyttan. 
2 * Vexilla Regis prodeunt.' In the third verse, there is an allusion to the Italic 
Version of Psalm xcvi. 10, in which text Justin Martyr accuses the Jews of sup- 
pressing the words ' from the tree.' 3 Dignare me, O Jesu, rogo Te. 



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which, as may be seen, has been much altered in the collec- 
tions : — 

' Take up thy cross ! the Saviour said, 

If thou wouldst My disciple be : 
Take up thy cross, with willing heart, 
And humbly follow after Me. 

' Take up thy cross ! let not its weight 

Fill thy weak soul with vain alarm ; 
His strength shall bear thy spirit up, 

And brace thy heart, and nerve thine arm. 

' Take up thy cross ! nor heed the shame, 

And let thy foolish pride be still : 
Thy Lord refused not e'en to die 
Upon a Cross, on Calvary's hill. 

* Take up thy cross, then, in His strength, 

And calmly Sin's wild deluge brave : 
'Twill guide thee to a better home, 
It points to glory o'er the grave. 

' Take up thy cross, and follow on, 

Nor think till death to lay it down ; 
For only he who bears the cross, 

May hope to wear the glorious crown ! ' 

There is a somewhat similar hymn in MonselFs Parish Musings — 
1 Take up thy cross, my soul, nor grieve.' Kelly's hymn, 'We sing 
the praise of Him Who died/ and Watts's magnificent lines, ' When 
I survey the wondrous Cross,' are also appropriate. Palm Sunday 
brings us the beautiful hymn 1 composed in the prison at Metz by S. 
Theodulph of Orleans, which gained liberty for its author from the 
emperor. ' Glory and laud and honour,' is Dr. Neale's translation, 
of which only the first line is changed, and, as he owns, improved, in 
' Hymns Ancient and Modern/ Dean Milman's hymn, ' Ride on, 
ride on in Majesty ! ; is given for this day in Heber's ' Hymns.' 
Heber's own hymn, 'Hosanna to the living Lord,' appointed by 
its author for Advent Sunday, may be also used on Palm Sunday. 
For Holy Week we have innumerable hymns, many of them not 

1 Gloria, laus, et honor. 



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entirely restricted of necessity to that solemn season. One part of 
S. Bernard's hymn, 1 in the same metre as Gerhardt's German version, 2 
is by Sir H. W. Baker — ' O sacred Head, surrounded.' It must be 
distinguished from J. W. Alexander's translation from Gerhardt, l O 
sacred Head, now wounded.' ' Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle ' 
is, though much improved from Dr. Neale's translation, one of the 
least satisfactory hymns in the ' Appendix to Hymns Ancient and 
Modern.' The original 3 is by Venantius Fortunatus. The ' Stab at 
Mater dolorosa* of Jacopone da Todi is best known to us in the 
translation in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' taken partly from 
Caswall's 'At the Cross, her station keeping,' but chiefly from Bishop 
Mant. Being mostly, in the original, addressed to the Blessed Virgin 
as a prayer, no very close rendering of it for English use is possible. 
Bishop Mant's first two stanzas run thus, — 

* By the cross, sad vigil keeping, 
Stood the mother doleful, weeping, 

Where her Son extended hung ; 
For her soul, of joy bereaved, 
Smit with anguish, deeply grieved, 

Lo ! the piercing sword had wrung. 

' O how sad and sore distressed 
Now was she, that mother blessed 

Of the Sole-begotten One ! 
Woe-begone, with heart's prostration, 
Mother meek, the bitter passion 

Saw she of her glorious Son.' 

Dr. Mant has imitated still more freely an ancient hymn (either by S. 
Ambrose or Venantius Fortunatus) in his lines beginning, ' See the 
destined day arise/ 4 A hymn, somewhat similar in the English 
though widely different in the original, is, * In the Lord's atoning 
Grief,' 5 Canon Oakeley's translation from S. Bonaventura, a Cardinal 
of Alba in the thirteenth century. This hymn would be more gene- 
rally acceptable if one or two faults of taste had been corrected. S. 

1 ' Salve Caput cruentatum.' There is some doubt concerning Bernard's claim to 
the authorship. 

2 £> £au£t, sotf 23hit imb SBunben. 3 Pange lingua gloriosi lauream certaminis. 
From ' Lustra sex Qui jam peregit.' 5 In Passione Domini. 



26 English Hymnology . 

Francis Xavier's hymn on love to God, inspired by the contemplation 
of the Passion, 1 rises almost too high in devotional fervour to be 
really sung from the heart by a congregation ; nevertheless, CaswalFs 
translation, l My God, I love Thee ; — not because/ is found in most 
new hymn-books. A Mozarabic Breviary hymn of the seventeenth 
century 2 has been translated by Dr. Neale, t Raise, raise thine eyes a 
little way.' His version is given with alterations in ' Hymns Ancient 
and Modern/ where the metre and rhymes are slightly changed, coin- 
ciding in some verses with a rendering by the Rev. F. Pott. It may 
be interesting to compare the third verse in the two translations. 

1 But though upon Him many a smart 
Its bitterness expendeth, 
Yet more, — oh, how much more ! — His Heart 

Man's thankless spirit rendeth ! 
On the Cross, bewailed by none, 
Mark, O man, how Mary's Son 
His life of sorrow endeth. ' 

y. M. Neale. 

1 Tis not alone those Limbs are racked, 

But friends, too, are forsaking ; 

And more than all, for thankless man 

The Saviour's Heart is aching ; 
Oh ! fearful was the pain and scorn 
By Jesus, Son of Mary, borne, 

While He our bonds was breaking.' 

F. Pott. 

Of the same date with this hymn, or even later, are two Roman 
Breviary hymns, translated by Caswall — t He Who once in righteous 
vengeance, 7 3 and t Overwhelmed in depths of woe ;' 4 one by Sir H. 
W. Baker, t Now, my soul, thy voice upraising/ 5 from the Paris, and 
another, i Sion's daughter, weep no more/ 6 from the Roman Breviary. 
6 Angels, lament; behold your God/ is altered from Chandler's 
translation of Coffin's 'Lugete, pacis angeli.' 6 Angels of peace, 

1 O Deus, ego amo Te. 2 Attolle paulum lumina. 

3 Ira justa Conditoris. 4 Saevo dolorum turbine. 

6 Prome vocem, mens, canoram. 6 Venit e coelo Mediator alto. 



English Hymnology. 27 



look down from heaven and mourn,' in the Sarum Hymnal, is I. 
Williams's translation. ' Glory be to Jesus,' is Caswali's translation 
of an Italian indulgence-prayer. 1 Chandler's translation, ' His trial 
o'er, and now beneath/ 2 a Good Friday hymn, deserves especial 
mention. The hymn in ' The People's Hymnal,' by T. W. C., which 
embodies the seven Words on the Cross, ' Draw near, thou lowly 
Christian/ is less devotional than Miss Cox's translation, ' Seven times 
our blessed Saviour spake.' 3 ' O come and mourn with me awhile/ 
is much improved for English use by the changes from Faber's original 
made in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern.' ' Rock of Ages, cleft for 
me/ Toplady's world-renowned hymn, is founded on the marginal 
rendering of Isa. xxvi. 4. It first appeared in the Gospel Magazine 
for March, 1776, entitled, ' A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest 
Believer in the World.' Mr. Bridges has evidently imitated it in his 
hymn, 'Soul of Jesus, once for me.' We owe chiefly to the Hon. 
and Rev. Walter Shirley the hymn, i Sweet the moments, rich in 
blessing/ though he has evidently based his work on 'While my 
Jesus I'm possessing/ by Allen. Montgomery wrote ' Go to dark 
Gethsemane/ a hymn rendered appropriate to Holy Week by the 
omission of the last verse, which commemorates the Resurrection. 
' Hark ! the Voice of Love and Mercy,' is attributed to Jonathan 
Evans, but his claim to it is disputed. For Easter Eve we have a 
beautiful hymn by Dr. Neale, ' With CHRiST^ve share a mystic grave,' 
also appropriate for Baptisms. The somewhat rugged lines of 
Whytehead's ' Sabbath of the saints of old/ have been re-cast into 
a beautiful hymn, ' Resting from His Work to-day.' 4 Wordsworth's, 
1 Upon the sixth day of the week/ would supply another, if treated 
somewhat similarly. 

For S. Matthias (Feb. 24) there is scarcely any hymn of high merit 
to be found. The best is perhaps by Gerard Moultrie, — ' Bishop of 
the souls of men.' Dr. Wordsworth's, ' No longer Thou in human 
form/ is woefully below his usual standard of excellence. On the 

1 Viva ! Viva ! Gesu. 
Opprobriis, Jesu, satur. (Par. Brev. Passion Sunday at nocturns.) 
3 5) a 3efu§ an beg j\ieiqe3 ^tamm. 4 See p. 8, 



28 English Hymnology. 



Annunciation (March 25) may be sung ' Praise we the Lord this 
day,' a hymn published anonymously at Oxford in 1846; Dr. Neale's 
translation from Venantius Fortunatus, ' The God Whom earth, 
and sea, and sky ;' 1 and W. W. How's ' Jesus ! Name of wondrous 
Love ! ; We cannot entirely recommend Sir H. Baker's hymn ' Shall 
we not love thee, Mother dear/ though we fail to see in it any grave 
doctrinal error. 

1 Quern terra, pontus, aethera. (Rom. Erev.) 




IV. 

EASTER, ASCENSIONTIDE, WHITSUNTIDE, AND TRINITY 
SUNDA Y HYMNS. 

If, like our Lord and His disciples, 1 the Church sings hymns in the 
very presence of His hours of suffering, yet are her strains then few 
and low compared with the songs of triumph with which she con- 
tinues to celebrate His victory, until once more she is summoned 
to the Mount of Olives to receive His parting blessing. A Greek 
hymn 2 of the eighth century, by S. John Damascene, for Easter Day, 
has become deservedly popular in Dr. Neale's translation, "Tis the 
day of resurrection.' From the same ' Golden Canon' two other 
hymns might be adopted, almost unaltered, for English use — ' Let us 
rise in early morning/ 3 and ' Thou hallowed chosen morn of praise.^ 
The latter is given in the ' People's Hymnal,' from Neale's first 
edition, thus losing some excellent corrections made in the later 
copies of his work. ' Come ye faithful, raise the strain/ is Dr. Neale's 
translation from S. John Damascene's Canon for S. Thomas's Sun- 
day. 5 A long Latin hymn for Easter, by S. Ambrose, 6 appears, 
variously divided into two or three parts, in our hymn-books. The 
version in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern/ ' Light's glittering morn 
bedecks the sky/ is based on Dr. Neale's. The two following 
specimens are translated from the Roman Breviary : — 

'The dawn is purpling o'er the sky, 
The air with Alleluias shakes, 
The glad earth shouts her triumph high, 
Hell in each shuddering cavern quakes.' 

Rev. W. J. Copeland. 



1 S. Matt. xxvi. 30. 2 'Avacrrdcrews rjfiepa. The irregularity of the first 

line is corrected in most of the hymnals. 3 'OpdplaujpLev opdpov Radios. 

4 Avtt) 7) kXtjtt}. ° "Acrojfxeu, irdvres \&oi. 

6 'Aurora lucis rutilat ' fSarum Breviary). The version given in the Roman 
Breviary, ' Aurora ccelum purpurat,' is much altered from the original. 



30 English Hymnology. 

'The dawn was purpling o'er the sky ; 
With Alleluias rang the air ; 
Earth held a glorious jubilee, 
Hell gnashed its teeth in fierce despair.' 

Rev. E. Caswall. 

Another Ambrosian hymn, 1 also in the Sarum Breviary, is improved 
from Dr. Neale's rendering, 'The Lamb's high banquet we' await;' in 
1 Hymns Ancient and Modern/ ' The Lamb's high banquet called to 
share/ Two recast versions, much inferior in the Latin, have sup- 
plied English hymns of at least equal merit with those translated 
from the original. The first, 2 in the Roman Breviary, gives us ' At 
the Lamb's high feast we sing/ translated for the 'S. Andrew's 
Hymnal,' by Robert Campbell. From the original MS. of this 
translation it would seem to have been intended as a sort of Easter 
adaptation from Wesley's ' Hark ! the herald-angels sing.' There is 
another translation, by Copeland, ' In garments dight of virgin 
white/ very beautiful, but less fitted for church use. The Paris 
Breviary contains a hymn 3 imitated by Charles Coffin from the 
same Latin original. The following translation from S. Fulbert of 
Chartres, 4 in common metre, is much more spirited than Dr. Neale's 
(which begins similarly) in long metre. It is due to Robert Camp- 
bell, editor of the ' S. Andrew's Hymnal. 7 It has been altered 
somewhat in later collections. 

i Ye choirs of New Jerusalem, 

Your sweetest notes employ, 
The Paschal Victory to hymn 
In strains of holy joy. 

' How Judah's Lion burst His chains, 
And crushed the Serpent's head, 
And brought with Him from death's domains 
The long imprisoned dead. 

1 From hell's devouring jaws the prey 

Alone our Leader bore ; 
His ransomed hosts pursue their way 
Where He hath gone before. 



1 Ad ccenam Agni providi. 2 Ad regias Agni dapes. 

3 Forti tegente Brachio. Chorus Novee Jerusalem. 



English Hymnology. 3 1 



* Triumphant in His glory now, 

His sceptre ruleth all : 
Earth, heaven, and hell, before Him bow, 
And at His footstool fall. 

1 While joyful thus His praise we sing, 

His mercy we implore, 
Into His palace bright to bring, 

And keep us evermore. 

' Through times unknown to earthly thought, 
O Father, praise to Thee, 
To Him Who our deliverance wrought, 
And to the Spirit be. 

One of the most jubilant ' proses ; of the French Service-books, 1 the 
composition of an unknown author in the twelfth century, has 
suffered sadly from sundry efforts to torture it into an English hymn. 
The least unfortunate rendering is perhaps by J. D. Chambers, — 
' Children of men, rejoice and sing! 7 Dr. Neale's, 'Ye sons and 
daughters of the King,' is made most unnecessarily worse in 'Hymns 
Ancient and Modern/ ( : sons and daughters, let us sing,') where it 
has indeed become a ' prosaic and meaningless ditty.' 3 A much 
more pleasing hymn, in the same metre, i The strife is o'er, the 
battle done,' is the Rev. F. Pott's translation of a twelfth-century 
Easter hymn. 3 Dr. Neale's, retaining the very peculiar metre of the 
original, is too evidently constrained by the exigencies of its rhymes. 
It begins thus : — 

' Alleluia ! Alleluia ! 

Finished is the battle now ; 

The crown is on the Victor's brow ! 
Hence with sadness ! 
Sing with gladness 

Alleluia ! ' 
Dr. Bonar's version : — 

i Alleluia ! Alleluia ! 
The battle now is done. 
The victory is won ; 

Let us joy and sing 

Alleluia ! ' 



O filii et filise. 2 R, H. Baynes. 3 Finita jam sunt prselia. 



32 English Hymnology. 

is scarcely more successful. The compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and 
Modern ' have themselves translated the Roman Breviary matins 
hymn for ' Low Sunday/ [i.e. the First Sunday after Easter,] ' O 
Christ, the heavens' Eternal King.' 1 Cas wall's version, 6 O Thou 
the heavens' Eternal King,' is in common metre. A very free 
translation from the 6 Salve Festa Dies ' for Easter, beginning, ' Hail ! 
Day of days, in peals of praise/ is ascribed to Copeland in ' The 
People's Hymnal,' but is not in his published book. There is a 
very beautiful translation of this hymn by Rev. John Ellerton, 
1 Welcome, happy morning.' It is given in Mr. Snepp's i Songs of 
Grace and Glory.' Copeland is the translator of the Sarum Breviary 
compline hymn 2 as given in \ Hymns Ancient and Modern,' c Jesu, 
the world's redeeming Lord/ but his work has been much improved. 
The twelfth-century ' prose ' in the Roman and Paris Missals 3 is 
freely imitated in 

' Christ the Lord is risen to-day ; 
Christians, haste your vows to pay ! ' 

There seem to be scarcely sufficient grounds for ascribing this trans- 
lation to a Miss Leeson, whom Mr. Sedgwick supposes to be the 
author. More literal translations are, i Praise to the Paschal Victim 
bring/ in the ' People's Hymnal,' and Dr. Neale's ' To the Paschal 
Victim.' 

One of the oldest German hymns, composed by Michael Weiss, 4 
has been beautifully translated by Miss Winkworth, — ' Christ the 
Lord is risen again.' More than a century later than Weiss, Louisa 
Henrietta, Electress of Brandenburgh, wrote her Easter hymn, 5 also 
found in Miss Winkworth's Lyra Germanica — 'Jesus my Redeemer 
lives.' C. F. Gellert's Easter hymn, 6 which somewhat resembles 
this, belongs to the eighteenth century. Miss Cox's translation of 
it, ' Jesus lives ! No longer now,' is somewhat spoiled in sixteen col- 
lections now lying before us, every one of which has omitted the 
last two lines of each stanza. Miss Cox's original may be seen in 

1 Rex Sempiterne coelitum. 2 Jesu Salvator saeculi. 

3 Victims Paschali laudes. 4 (Sfyriftug ijt erjlcmten. 5 Sefug mctne ^userftcfyt. 

6 3efit3 UU ! mit 3§m aucl; tc$. 



English Hymnology. 33 

* Hymns from the German, by F. E. Cox/ or in ' Lyra Messianica/ 
for which it was revised by the authoress. Luther's Easter hymn, — 
' In the bonds of Death he lay/ in Miss C. Winkworth's translation, 
— can only be used on the morning of Easter Day. 

The Easter hymn, 'Jesus Christ is risen to-day! Alleluia!' has 
been traced by Mr. Sedgwick to a school-book of sacred history, 
printed at Northampton about the middle of the eighteenth century, 
written by one C. B., probably a pupil or friend of Dr. Doddridge. 
Unhappily, all the old records of its printers were destroyed in a fire 
at the Mercury office a few years ago. Mrs. Alexander's Easter 
hymn, ' He is risen, He is risen V is scarcely so beautiful as most of 
her sacred poetry. The hymn 

' Christ the Lord Is risen to-day 
Sons of men and angels say,' 

is by Charles Wesley. Dr. Neale wrote, partly in imitation of 
ancient sequences, the irregularly divided lines beginning, ' The foe 
behind, the sea before.' ' The happy morn is come/ by Haweis, is 
a fine hymn, though it is perhaps improved by the alterations with 
which the Rev. R. H. Baynes prints it in ' The Canterbury Hymnal/ 
where it begins — 

{ Lo ! the glad morn is come ; 
The Lord is risen indeed 
Victorious from the tomb ; 
He hath His people freed ! 
Thy praise we sing, the Church's Head, 
O Thou Who livest and wast dead ! ' 

Heber's hymn, ' God is gone up with a merry noise/ is much more 
appropriate for Ascension Day. Wordsworth's 'Alleluia ! Alleluia ! 
Hearts to Heaven and voices raise/ is exceedingly beautiful, yet 
falls short of his other hymn, ' In Thy glorious Resurrection/ which 
echoes, in no faint tones, the poetry of Adam of S. Victor, in whose 
style it is written, and whose Easter sequences 2 it cannot fail to 
recall. Monsell's beautiful Easter hymn, ' Christ is risen ! Alleluia 

1 (£§rtfi lag in £obe£Banfceit. 

2 Especially ' Ecce Dies Celebris ' and ' Zyina vetus expurgetur. ' 

D 



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34 English Hymnology. 

and H. Bonar's, 'The tomb is empty; wouldst thou have it full?' 
must be mentioned, The hymn which in Thomas Kelly's original 
begins, ' He's gone ; see where His Body lay/ has been in the 
collections mostly altered to ' Come, see the place where Jesus lay.' 
This is the first line of a hymn by the Rev. A. T. Russell, but 
Kelly wrote another quite different hymn, beginning — 

' Come, ye saints, look here and wonder ; 

See the place where Jesus lay.' 

For Rogationtide, Keble's hymn, 'Lord, in Thy Name Thy 
servants plead/ written for the ' Salisbury Hymn-Book' in 1857, 
may be used ; and on the three Rogation days, Neale's ■ Till its holy 
hours are past.' Perhaps the only hymn of Sir H. Baker's that can be 
regarded as in any sense a failure, is that which he has adapted to 
the tune of a German litany/ from which, indeed, the words of its 
first verse are imitated. 

Ascensiontide is very rich in hymns. One of the most interesting, 2 
as to its history, has come to us from S. Bede. The Ascension was 
a favourite theme with him, and was one of the last subjects of his 
song. It is well translated in Hymnal Noted, 3 ' Sing we triumphant 
hymns of praise/ but better still in Mrs. Charles's, ' A hymn of glory 
let us sing.' S. Ambrose's hymn for Ascension Day 4 is much im- 
proved from Dr. Neale's ' Eternal Monarch, King most high/ in 
6 Hymns Ancient and Modern,' where it begins, 'O Lord most high, 
Eternal King.' Copeland's translation, ' King Eternal, Power un- 
bounded/ begins well, but breaks down in the last two stanzas. The 
Paris Breviary vespers hymn for Ascension Day 5 has been greatly 
altered from Chandler's version in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern/ 'O 
Saviour, Who for man hast trod.' There is a much more spirited 
version in i The People's Hymnal,' altered from W. J. Blew — 
'Anointed One ! Thy work is done.' The hymn in the same 
Breviary for lauds 6 (' O Christ, our Hope, our heart's Desire/ 

1 ,33 citer, son fcem pdjften £§ron.' A much better tune has been written for it 
by Dr. Hayne. 

2 Hymnum canamus gloriae. 3 The version there given is not by Dr. Neale. 
4 ^Eterne Rex Altissime. 5 'Opus peregisti Tuum,' by Charles Coffin. 

6 Jesu, nostra Redemptio. 



English Hymnology. 35 

in Chandler's translation, greatly surpasses the altered Latin 1 in the 
Roman Breviary, which Copeland has translated, ' Author of lost 
man's Salvation.' The fourth ode in S. Joseph of the Studium's 
Canon for Ascension Day 2 supplies the hymn, ' Jesus, Lord of Life 
Eternal.' The stanzas are alphabetically arranged in the Greek as 
well as in this (Dr. Neale's) translation. This was probably done 
to assist the memory, and in imitation of the Hebrew poets. 3 J. 
Zwick's Ascension hymn 4 is somewhat tamely rendered in Miss 
Winkworth's ' To-day our Lord went up on high.' 

The most popular of our English Ascension hymns, ' Hail the day 
that sees Him rise/ is much improved from Charles Wesley's original 
in most collections. Some of Wesley's last stanzas will be new to 
many : 5 — 

* Master, (will we ever say,) 
Taken from our head to-day, 6 
See Thy faithful servants, see, 
Ever gazing up to Thee. 

* Ever upwards may we rove, 
Wafted on the wings of Love ; 
Looking when our Lord shall come, 
Longing, gasping, after home : 

' There we shall with Thee remain, 
Partners of Thine endless reign : 
There Thy Face unclouded see ; 
Find our Heaven of heavens in Thee.' 

i See the Conqueror mounts in triumph,' by Bp. Wordsworth, is 
rather a beautiful poem than a successful hymn. Mrs. Toke's best 
hymn, 'Thou art gone up on high,' was first printed in 1851. The 
hymn from the Paris Breviary for the Octave of the Ascension, 7 ' O 
Christ, Who has prepared a place/ in Chandler's translation, may 
fitly be sung on the Sunday after Ascension Day. For Whitsun-Eve 

1 * Salutis humanae Sator.' See Daniel, ' Thesaurus Hymnologicus, ' i. p. 63. 

2 'Irjo-ovs 6 £u)od6T7}s. 3 Compare, e.g. Psalm cxix. 

4 2luf biefen %a% fcefcenfen toir. 
5 They are given with alterations in the S.P.C.K. collection as a separate hymn. 
6 Compare 2 Kings ii. 3, 5. 7 Nobis, Olympo redditus. 



36 E7iglisJi Hy 111110 logy. 



we have ' Ruler of the hosts of light,' one of the most successful 
renderings by Sir H. Baker and his co-compilers, from an anonymous 
hymn in the Paris Breviary. 1 The second part of Wordsworth's last- 
mentioned hymn is also suitable for this day :—' Holy Ghost, 
Illuminator.' 

Many of the Latin Whitsun Day hymns 2 contain some reference to the 
giving of the Law, which the Jews commemorated on this day. There is 
a curious parallelism, and yet more strange contrast, between this gift and 
that of the Holy Ghost. The morning's first lesson (old lectionary) of 
Ascension Day takes us up the Mount Sinai with Moses, even while we 
celebrate the Ascension into heaven of the ' Prophet like unto' Moses. 
Whitsun Day brings from both their several gifts, the one written on 
stone, the other on 'fleshy tables of the heart' If we have no popular 
translations of the hymns which thus present Whitsun Day in its double 
significance, we have an English hymn, no doubt partly suggested by 
them, 3 Keble's ' When God of old came down from heaven;' and they 
are glanced at in Wordsworth's ' When the Lord of Hosts ascended.' 
Another class of Whitsuntide hymns is addressed to the Holy Ghost. 
The best known of these 4 is retained from the ancient Ordinal in our 
own Ordination Service, where there are two translations given. The 
first, in long metre, 5 is much the better ; it is the work of Bishop 
Cosin, in whose 'Devotions ' it may be found. It begins, 'Come, Holy 
Ghost, our souls inspire.' Other translations are Dryden's 'Creator 
Spirit! by Whose. aid,' a free paraphrase in thirty-nine lines, and 
' Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,' by the compilers of ' Hymns 
Ancient and Modern.' The authorship of the Latin hymn is variously 
ascribed to Rhabanus Maurus, to Charlemagne, and to Gregory. The 
Whitsun Day sequence in the Roman and Paris Missals 6 has been 
popularly ascribed to Robert II. of France \ but Pitra, the editor of 

1 Supreme Rector ccelitum. 

2 Compare especially ' Inter sulphurei fulgura turbinis,' the Paris Breviary Whit- 
sun Day hymn for nocturns. 

3 ' I dare say they gave me hints, and I am glad at any rate of the coincidence.' 
(Letter of Rev. J. Keble, dated December 13th, 1865.) 

4 Veni Creator Spiritus. 

5 It is perhaps better divided into three stanzas of six lines each. 

6 Veni Sancte Spiritus. 



English Hymnoiogy. 37 



1 Spicilegium Solesmensej assigns it, on contemporary testimon) r , to 
Stephen Langton. Cas wall's translation, ' Come, Thou Holy Spirit, 
come,' though less strictly following the metre of the original, is much 
better than Dr. Neaie's ' Come, Thou Holy Paraclete.' We also owe 
to Caswall, ' Above the starry spheres,' the best rendering of the 
Ambrosian hymn, 1 given in the Roman Breviary for the matins of 
Whitsun Day. The hymn for lauds, written by S. Hilary, 2 has been 
translated by Blew rather poorly, ' Round roll the weeks our hearts 
to greet;' better by Copeland, ' Again the circling seasons tell' 
The alterations from his version in ' Hymns and Introits ' are all 
improvements. 

From the German hymn of Johann Rist 3 for Whitsun Day Miss 
F. E. Cox has made a beautiful translation, ' This day sent forth His 
heralds bold,' but it is hardly fitted for Church use. Paul Gerhardt's 
Pentecostal Hymn 4 is known to us in two translations ; that of Jacobi, 
as altered by Toplady, c Holy Ghost, dispel our sadness,' and Miss 
Winkworth's, 'Sweetest joy the soul can know.' Simon Browne's 
hymn — 

4 Come. Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, 
My sinful maladies remove, 5 

is found thus altered in most collections, (perhaps first in Hall, 

1836)- 

' Come, Gracious Spirit, Heavenly Dove, 
With Light and Comfort from aboz't. } 

It must not be confounded with Watts's — 

* Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, 
With all Thy quickening Powers,' 

and Hart's ( Come, Holy Spirit, come.' "Spirit of Mercy, Truth, 
and Love ' is not, as commonly supposed, by the Rev. R. W. Kyle, 
but much older, being first found in ' Foundling Hymns.' Miss 
Auber's Hymn, ' Our Blest Redeemer, ere He breathed,' is from her 
4 Spirit of the Psalms.' c Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost ; is by Bishop 
Wordsworth. 

1 Jam Christus astra ascenderat. 2 B'eata nobis gaudia. 

3 £eut Bar tetvjvcpc £tramel6t)ctr. 4 -O 5)u aUerjufte Oreute. 



38 English Hymnology. 

Trinity Sunday has a beautiful hymn assigned to it in the old Anglo- 
Saxon hymnaries, 1 which Chambers has well translated, ' All hail ! 
Adored Trinity/ and which contrasts favourably with the Paris 
Breviary lauds hymn, 3 ' Blest Trinity, from mortal sight/ which even 
the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern ' have been unable to 
clothe with poetry. Miss Winkworth's versions of Angelus, i Most 
High and Holy Trinity/ 3 and Tersteegen, 'Thee, Fount of Blessing, 
we adore/ 4 may be used, but are not equal to Heber's grand hymn 
on the portion of Holy Scripture appointed for the Epistle for this 
day, ' Holy, Holy, Holy ! Lord God Almighty/ ' O God of Life, 
Whose Power benign/ is by A. T. Russell. In Morrell and How's 
c Psalms and Hymns ' it is given by mistake as 'from the German. ' 
' Father of Heaven, Whose Love profound/ was first printed in 
CotterhTs Collection, 1810, and in marked copies of that book is 
ascribed to ' J. Cooper/ a writer otherwise unknown. Wordsworth's 
' Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord ! ' and Monsell's ' Mighty Father ! 
Blessed Son ! ' deserve to be better known. Faber's hymn, ' Most 
ancient of all mysteries ' is very good. 

For S. Mark's Day (April 25 th) we have scarcely any hymns spe- 
cially appropriate ; those for Evangelists generally will be considered 
in another paper. Dr. Wordsworth's poem in 'The Holy Year/ 
' The virtues of Thy saints, O Lord,' is even less like a hymn than 
Keble's ' Oh ! who shall dare in this frail scene.' SS. Philip and 
James's Day (May 1st) is better provided for. Bishop Doane's 'Thou 
art the Way, to Thee alone/ is appropriate to the Collect and Gospel; 
Wordsworth's ' Blest be, O Lord, the grace of Love/ is one of his 
best saints'-day hymns. Gurney's ' Memory of the blest departed ' 
is unfit for use in church. The Latin hymn, sung on the tower of 
Magdalen College, Oxford, on the morning of this day, was given in 
the Monthly Packet, volume xvii. p. 527, with a translation in English : 
— it is not specially appropriate to the Festival. Neale has written 
a beautiful hymn for the day, given in his ' Hymns for Children' — 'All 
is bright and cheerful round us." 

1 Ave, colenda Trinitas ! 2 O Luce Quae Tua Iates. 

3 #cdj$eiltge £rcicungfcit. 4 33rutm cUUS «§ci(8, 2)tc$ e(;ten toic. 



V. 

HYMNS FOR SAINTS' BAYS, FOR CHURCH DEDICATION, 
FOR CHORAL FESTIVALS. 

Many of the festivals of the Saints have come before us already in 
the course of the Church's year. There remain, however, the festivals 
from June to November ; and we have besides to consider the Saints' 
Day hymns of more general appropriateness. 

For S. Barnabas (June 1 1) 'The People's Hymnal' gives a translation 
by A. L. P. {i.e. A London Priest, Dr. R. F. Littledale, one of its 
compilers) from the vespers hymn in the Paris Breviary, 1 'Thou, 
Barnabas, hast won repose.' It might be possible to select verses 
suitable for a hymn from Dr. Wordsworth's poem, ' Buried in heathen 
darkness lay.' For S. John Baptist's two festivals, (June 24, Nat. — 
August 29, Decoll.) the Paris Breviary has a long poem by Charles 
Coffin, divided into six hymns. The third of these 3 has been well 
translated by I. Williams, (in the metre of Tate and Brady's 148th 
Psalm,) ' Lo, from the desert homes.' The original, though some- 
times very homely in its language, 3 has considerable beauty. S. 
Bede's hymn for this day 4 is known to us in Dr. Neale's translation, 
'The great forerunner of the morn.' The Roman Breviary has a 
long hymn in the same metre as that in the Paris, much older, but 
not nearly equal to it. The author is Paul the Deacon, a monk of 
the eighth century. From the first verse of this hymn were taken- 
the French names of first six notes of the scale : — 

' Wit queant laxis rcsonare fibris 
fHtra gestorum famuli Tuorum, 
£?0lve polluti labii reatum, 
Sancte Joannes.' 



1 ' Coelo datur quiescere.' I. Williams's version, 'Crowned with immortal 
jubilee,' is given in the ' Child's Christian Year.' 

2 Nunc suis tandem novus e latebris. 

3 e.g., St. John is called a 'precious infant,' in the noctums hymn, 

4 Prae cursor altus Luminis. 



4-0 English Hymnology. 

6 The People's Hymnal ' attempts to present this hymn in its original 
metre, with very indifferent success. 1 The translation begins, 
i Greatest of prophets, messenger appointed/ and keeps clear of the 
invocations of S. John which mar the original. Caswall's rendering 
of part of this hymn appears in ' Hymns and Introits/ beginning, ' O 
blessed Saint of snow-white purity/ 3 The Paris Breviary hymn for 
the Octave of the Epiphany, 3 ' Judaea's desert heard a sound/ in I. 
Williams's translation, is appropriate for this Festival. Wordsworth's 
hymn, ' In the wilderness prepare ye for the Lord a Way to go/ is 
grand, but too long. c When Christ the Lord would come on 
earth/ is Dean Alford's beautiful hymn for S. John Baptist's Day. 
Drummond's hymn, 6 The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King/ 
is apparently imitated from the Breviaries. 

The festival of S. Peter (June 29) brings us several hymns, of 
which the best is perhaps Heber's ' Creator of the rolling flood.' Of 
Dr. Wordsworth's two hymns for this Saint, the second, which com- 
memorates S. Peter in prison, (August i,) 4 is the more poetical; the 
first, ' " Cephas and Peter/' — heaven-taught name/ records the share 
of S. Peter in the Gospel history. One of the most beautiful poems 
in Lyra Anglicana, ' The Apostle slept, — a light shone in the prison/ 
by J. D. Burns, takes its subject from the deliverance of S. Peter. 

An appropriate hymn for the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin 
(July 2) is Heber's ' Virgin-born, we bow before Thee.' The Saram 
Breviary vespers hymn for this festival is given in ' The People's 
Hymnal/ ' Saints ! the glorious Mother greeting/ 5 from Chambers's 
translation • it is a miserably frigid production, utterly breaking down 
in both poetry, and doctrine in the Doxology. Truly the day which 
produced the Magnificat needs not such hymns as this. For S. Mary 
Magdalene's Day our best hymn is that given in ' Hymns Ancient 
and Modern/ partly from Caswall's translation, ' Son of the Highest, 



1 Copeland has given a rendering of it in blank verse. 
2 From ' O nimis felix, meritique celsi.' 3 Clamantis ecce vox sonans. 

4 Lammas is said to be a corruption of * S. Peter ad VinaiLA Mass.' The hymn 
begins, ' How blessed is the force of prayer.' 

5 Festum Matris gloriosae. 



English Hymnology. 41 

deign to cast.' 1 It is perhaps scarcely fair to use hymns which 
assume the identity of this saint with the ' woman which was a sin- 
ner,' and with the sister of Lazarus, as is done in the York Breviary 
hymn for vespers of her festival. A hymn ' for S. James's Day/ (July 
25,) by Heber, ' Though sorrows rise, and dangers roll,' seems to 
contain nothing specially appropriate to the day. Wordsworth's 
lines, ' To-day, O Lord, the holy James,' might supply material for a 
hymn. 

For the Transfiguration, (August 6,) the translation from the 
Sarum Breviary, 2 'O wondrous type, O vision fair/ may be used. It 
is based on Dr. Neale's, 'A type of those bright rays on high.' 
Montgomery's 'When on Sinai's top I see/ has some fitness for this 
festival; but the best original English hymn for it is Dr. Words- 
worth's, 'At Thy Transfiguration, Lord/ Dr. Neale has translated 
a Greek hymn of S. Cosmas for this day,' 3 — i The choirs of ransomed 
Israel.' From this is taken, 'In days of old, in Sinai.' There are 
several Danish Hymns suitable for this festival, but I know of 
scarcely any good English translations of them. 

Nearly all the hymns for S. Bartholomew's Day identify him with 
Nathanael. This is done in ' The Christian Year/ and by R. C. 
Coxe in ' Behold an Israelite indeed/ positively ; by Bishop Words- 
worth in his ' The tribes of Israel revered/ more doubtfully. 

For S. Matthew's Day (September 21) Mr. W. C. Dix has written 
a hymn, ' Sitting at receipt of customs/ which, though scarcely hymn- 
like in some of its language, is powerful, as an appeal written by a 
business-man in the name of business-men might be expected to be, 
realizing the spirit of Keble's lines : — 

' There are in this loud stunning tide 
Of human care and crime, 



1 From 'Summi Parentis Unice/ Roman Breviary. There seems a strange 
inconsistency in the admission of a special hymn for this day by the compilers of 
1 Hymns Ancient and Modern, ' who have not even allowed themselves a special 
hymn for S. Peter. 

2 ' Coelestis formam glorias. ' In Hymnal Noted Dr. Neale has by mistake given 
the first line, ' O nata Lux de lumine,' of the hymn for lauds. 

8 Xopbs 'Icrpa-qX. 



4^ English Hymnology. 

With whom the melodies abide 
Of the everlasting chime ; 

Who carry music in their heart 

Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, 
Plying their daily task with busier feet, 
Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.' 

Some stanzas of Wordsworth's 'Four Rivers from one holy Fount 
arise/ may be used. 

For the festival of S. Michael and all Angels, (September 24,) we 
have Dr. Neale's cento from S. Joseph of the Studium's canon of the 
'Bodiless Ones/ beginning 'Stars of the morning, so gloriously 
bright.' The Scotch Episcopal Collection has a beautiful hymn, by 
Robert Campbell, editor of S. Andrew's Hymnal, 'They come ? 
God's messengers of Love,' improved in 'Hymns Ancient and 
Modern.' Copeland's translation from the Roman Breviary lauds 
hymn, 1 ' Christ of the holy angels light and gladness,' is too trip- 
ping in its pseudo-Sapphic metre to make a really good hymn. Rist's 
hymn for this festival 2 has been well translated by Miss Winkworth's 
' Praise and thanks to Thee be sung.' We owe to the Rev. R. M. 
Benson the hymn, ' Praise to God who reigns above/ wherein the 
ninefold orders of the angels are enumerated. Dr. Wordsworth's 
poem for this day, ' How dreadful is this place ! God's House/ needs 
but little change to make it a sublime hymn. Toplady's ' Inspirer 
and Hearer of prayer/ though its metre 3 is unfortunate, has much 
beauty. ' Behold the glories of the Lamb ' in the Sarum Hymnal is 
Keble's variation from Watts's ' Come let us join our cheerful songs,' 
' O God the Son Eternal, Thy dread might,' is altered from ' Oh 
Captain of God's Host, Whose dreadful might/ Heber's hymn for 
this day. ' O ye immortal throng ; is by Philip Doddridge, (1755). 
'Around the throne in circling band ' is by Dr. Neale, written in 
1850. ' Bright the vision that delighted/ is by Bishop Mant. 

S, Luke's Day (October 18) brings us not many hymns. In the 

1 Christe, sanctorum Decus angelorum. 
2 (£f)r unfc 2!anf fei 3)tv gefungcn. 
3 It is perhaps needless to caution any one against attempting to give it a long 
metre tune. 



English Hymnology. 43 



Rev. R. R. Chope's hymnal, the lines, ' Behold, and see Christ's 
chosen saint/ are adapted from the Christian Year. Dr. Wordsworth 
has given two scarcely poetical summaries of the two books written 
by S. Luke. A much more successful hymn is ' O Saviour of our 
earthly race,' by the late Rev. Joseph Francis Thrupp. The early 
death of its author has been a real loss to Hymnology, as well as to 
several other departments of religious literature. The Rev. Gerard 
Moultrie has contributed to ' The People's Hymnal ' verses of some 
beauty, beginning, ' O Jesu, O Redeemer/ 

It is worth while to notice, in passing, a very excellent hymn for S. 
Crispin's Day, (October 25,) by W. C. Dix, beginning, 'O Christ, 
Thou Sox of Alary.' The second verse is especially good : — 

4 Our feet be shod, as pilgrims, 

With bands of Gospel peace, 
Till life's long march be ended, 

And strife and struggle cease : 
Till on the ground most holy, 

Our shoes from off our feet 
We put, with holy gladness, — 

The pilgrimage complete.' 

Its author advocates the use of similarly appropriate hymns on other 
minor festivals \ but unfortunately our knowledge of the histories 
which would supply the material for such hymns is exceedingly 
limited. Even in the case of the two Apostles, SS. Simon and Jude ? 
whose festival (October 28) comes next before us, our scanty in- 
formation causes a corresponding dearth of hymns. Neale's hymn, 
' Saints of God, whom faith united/ makes scarcely any reference to 
their history, but has much intrinsic beauty, connecting the idea of 
autumn with Christian thoughts in much the same way that ' All is 
bright and cheerful round us ' — his hymn for SS. Philip and James — 
treats the idea of spring. Wordsworth's first four and last three 
stanzas of the hymn beginning ' When Thou, O Lord, didst send the 
Twelve,' treats what is known of SS. Simon and Jude more fully. 
All Saints' Day brings us two Greek hymns, S. John Damascene's, 1 

Tus edpas rds alcwlas. 



4-1- English Hymnology. 

6 Those eternal bowers' in Neale's translation, and a cento from the 
canon for SS. Timothy and Maura, by S. Joseph of the Studium, 1 
which the same translator has rendered ' Let our choir new anthems 
raise.' The Paris Breviary hymn for lauds of the vigil of this day 2 is 
well translated in I. Williams's 'O heavenly Jerusalem.' W. Palmer's 
translation of the prose from the Paris Missal, 3 ' Spouse of Christ, in 
arms contending,' is beautiful. The magnificent German hymn of 
Theodore Schenk 4 is known to us in two translations, Miss Wink- 
worth's 'Who are those before God's Throne,' and Miss F. E. Cox's 
still more beautiful 'Who are these like stars appearing.' Miss 
Wink worth has only translated ten of the original fourteen stanzas. 
Bishop Mant's hymn, ' For all Thy Saints, O Lord,' appears in an 
altered form as the last of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern.' Words- 
worth's l Hark the sound of holy voices,' is one of the finest hymns 
he ever w r rote. Anstice's hymn for All Saints' Day, ' What countless 
crowd on Sion stands/ has some similarity to Wesley's ' What are 
these arrayed in white/ which again resembles Dr. Watts's 'What happy 
men or angels these.' Mary Lundie Duncan is the author of the 
lines begining ' Lo, round the Throne, a glorious band.' A memoir 
of this writer was published by her mother, Mrs. Lundie. She died 
in 1840, aged only 25. Another paraphrase of the same text 5 is 
better known in Cameron's variation, ' How bright those glorious 
spirits shine,' than in its original form : — 

* These glorious minds, how bright they shine ! 
Whence all their bright array ? 
How came they to the happy seals 
Of everlasting day ?' 

Sir Roundell Palmer has given the re-cast version in his ' Book of 
Praise.' 6 

1 TcDj> lepwv dOXocpopuu. 

2 Ccelestis O Jerusalem. 3 Sponsa Christi quae per orbem. 

4 2Ber finb tie so? ®otteS Serene. 5 Rev. vii. 13-17. 

6 He has, however, taken a modern hymnal very severely to task for adopting 

Cameron's variation from Doddridge's ' Hark ! the glad sound ! the Saviour 

comes.' 



English Hymnology. 45 

Hymns common to all festivals of saints are mostly of modern 
date. Heber's hymn for S. Stephen's Day may be thus used, and 
Bishop Mant's hymn, ' O Jesu, Source of sanctity/ ' From all Thy 
saints in warfare,' was written by Lord Nelson for the Sarum 
Hymnal. ' For all Thy saints, who from their labours rest,' is by the 
Rev. W. W. How. Wesley's hymn, ' Come let us join our friends 
above,' is improved in the re-cast version, • Let saints on earth in 
concert sing.' Few hymns for Apostles come to us from very early 
times. One of the first is by S. Ambrose, 1 of which Caswall's 
rendering, i The Lord's eternal Gifts,' is far more spirited than Dr. 
Neale's, ' The eternal Gifts of Christ the King.' Mr. Woodford's 
version, l The eternal Spirit's Gifts,' is also good. J. B. Santeul has 
contributed to the Paris Breviary a very remarkable hymn, 2 which 
I. Williams has well translated, ' Disposer Supreme.' It needs some 
explanation, and the following analysis of it may not be unaccept- 
able : — 

1 How does the Judge of the world choose for His ministers the poor and 
unlearned; (1 Cor. i. 27) as treasures (2 Cor. iv. 7) or lamps (Judges vii. 16-20) 
have been sometimes placed in earthen pitchers. The pitchers are broken, — the 
lights shine forth at the word of command, and the trumpets sound 3 as they also 
sounded before Jericho, (Joshua, vi. 20,) overthrowing the strongholds of Satan. 
(2 Cor. x. 4.) May we awaken from sin at the sound of the Gospel, not delaying 
till the archangel's trump is blown. May we be illumined by this light, not walking 
in darkness, lest we be cast at last into the outer darkness, which no beams of mercy 
shall ever pierce.' 

The Paris Breviary lauds hymn, by Santolius Victorinus, 4 ' Captains 
of the saintly band ' in Sir H. W. Baker's translation, ' Ye captains of 
a heavenly host ; in I. Williams's, ought only to be used on the 
festivals of the Twelve, not, e.g., on S. Barnabas' Day. 

For Evangelists we have the Paris Breviary vespers and nocturns 
hymn, 5 beautifully translated by the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient 

Sterna Christi munera, 
Apostolorum gloriam. 

2 Supreme, quales, Arbiter. 
3 Compare Christian Year for Advent Sunday. 4 Coelestis Aulae Principes. 
5 Christi perennes nuntii. 



46 English Hymnology. 



and Modern,' ' Behold the messengers of Christ/ The version of 
Isaac Williams, ' Christ's everlasting messengers,' has some, though 
very small, similarity to theirs. The idea of the fourfold river of 
Eden as typical of the evangelists is worked out at some length in 
Adam of S. Victor's sequences, two of which l are imitated by Mr. 
Robert Campbell, of Skerrington, in the hymn Tome, pure hearts, 
in sweetest measures/ Dr. Littledale's 'From hidden source arising,' 
would have been improved by the omission of the very prosaic 
stanzas assigning the four living creatures of Ezekiel's vision to the 
evangelists as their antitypes. Dr. Watts's ' How beauteous are their 
feet ' may be used on the festivals of evangelists. 

For Martyrs we have Neale's version ' Let our choir new anthems 
raise,' taken from S. Joseph of the Studium's, Ta>v Upa>v dOXo^opav. 
We have also several versions of S.Ambrose's two hymns. The 
first 2 (freely imitated in Robert Campbell's ' Ye servants of a martyred 
Lord ') may be seen literally translated in Copeland's ' The unfading 
crowns by Christ bestowed,' a version utterly unfit for church use. 
The other Ambrosian hymn 3 is well translated in Dr. Neale's ' O 
God, Thy soldiers' great Reward/ 'Blessed feasts of blessed 
Martyrs' is Dr. Neale's version of what he calls a 'very elegant 
sequence of German origin.' 4 It is to be regretted that his transla- 
tion has not reproduced much of the elegance of which he speaks, 
and the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern ' have on the 
whole made the hymn still more offensive. ' For man the Saviour 
shed,' 5 is translated by the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and 
Modern ; from the Paris Breviary, where we also find ' Pugnate 
Christi milites,' the original whence the Rev. J. H. Clark has trans- 
lated ' Soldiers who are Christ's below/ Sir H. W. Baker's hymn ? 
'Oh, what, if we are Christ's,' may be appropriately used; or the 
Rev. W. Blight's ' Saviour, while we dwell securely.' For saints not 

1 Jucundare, plebs fidelis. 

2 ^Eterna Chrtsti munera 
Et Martyrum victorias. 

3 Deus Tuorum militum. 4 O beata beatorum. 

5 ' Ex quo, Salus mortalium, ' by J. E. Santeul. 



English Hymnology. 47 

martyrs may be sung, ' Not by the martyr's death alone/ 1 1. Williams's 
translation from the Paris Breviary. His first verse is borrowed by 
the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern.' c O Shepherd of 
the sheep ' is by Mr. V. S. C. Coles. For Virgins, Neale's translation 
from Ambrose, ( Jesu, the virgins' crown, do Thou/ 2 may be 'used, 
or Mr. Coles's hymn ( O Lamb of God, Whose love Divine.' There 
is a hymn for Doctors, ' Jesu, for the Beacon-light/ contributed by 
Sir H. W. Baker to the Appendix, which is very suitable for use on 
the black-letter days which commemorate SS. Jerome, Ambrose, and 
Augustine. It is difficult to imagine why the English calendar should 
be supposed to give opportunity for using such a hymn as that trans- 
lated from Cardinal Sylvius, 3 ' How blest the matron, who endued.' 
If we are to commemorate S. Perpetua, we certainly expect some 
reference to her martyrdom ; while for S. Anne's Day we cannot use a 
hymn which omits all that is supposed to be known about her, and 
puts in what is certainly improbable, considering that it is applied to 
a Jewish matron. 

The beautiful old Church Dedication Hymn, known to us in Dr. 
Neale's version, t Blessed City, heavenly Salem/ 4 has a remarkable 
change of subject at the seventh stanza, where it turns from 
celebrating the heavenly Jerusalem to a prayer of dedication. 
Hence Daniel, followed by Dr. Neale, considers the concluding 
stanzas as a later addition. The authorship of the hymn is not 
known. ' Christ is our Corner-stone ' is a translation of the second 
part, ' Angulare, Fundamentum.' The Paris Breviary hymn 5 by 
Guiet has been translated by Isaac Williams, ' O Word of God 
above ; ' — only his first stanza is adopted by the compilers of e Hymns 
Ancient and Modern/ Neale's hymn, ' O God, w T ho lovest to abide/ 
somewhat resembles this. For laying the foundation of a church, Dr. 
Neale's ' O Lord of Hosts, Whose glory fills,' taken from his ' Hymns 
for Children/ may be used. Montgomery has many hymns for this 
occasion, the best being 'This stone to Thee in faith we lay/ 

1 Non parta solo sanguine. 2 Jesu, Corona virginum. 

8 Fortem virili pectore. 4 Urbs beata Hirusalem. 

5 Patris aeterni Soboles coa^va. 



4 8 



English Hymnology. 



For choral festivals we have few hymns of the highest order. 
George Withers quaint old hymn, ' Come, O come ! in pious lays/ 
may be used. Baring Gould's two processional hymns, ' Now severed 
is Jordan/ and ' Onward, Christian soldiers/ are less beautiful than 
' Much in sorrow, oft in woe,' Kirke White's fragment, completed by 
Miss Maitland. There has been recently composed for it a beau- 
tiful tune by Dr. Dykes. 6 Brightly gleams our banner/ given anony- 
mously in ' The People's Hymnal/ is by T. J. Potter. i Rejoice, ye 
pure in heart ' is by the Rev. E, H. Plumptre. 




VI. 

HYMNS OX THE SACRAMENTS, OX CONFIRMATION, ETC., FOR 
EMBER DAYS, ORDINATIONS, AXD MISSIONS. 

We may perhaps feel some surprise that no place for the singing of 
anthem or hymn is formally appointed in our offices of Holy Com- 
munion and Holy Baptism. Custom has. however, long sanctioned 
the use of a hymn at the beginning of the former service, and also 
before the sermon or homily contained in it; and though this place 
for the second hymn is not without objections, it seems the most 
convenient for those churches where the choir is not present during 
the celebration. A baptismal hymn may be sung either before or 
after the office, or it might be introduced immediately after the 
reception into the congregation of the person newly baptized. 

There was at the time when these articles first appeared, a strange 
and lamentable dearth of Eucharistic hymns in some of the best 
collections of Church hymns. There are only five in c Hymns 
Ancient and Modern,' 1 seven in the enlarged S. P. C. K. Collection, 
one in the i Hymnal for Use in the English Church/' one in c Hymns 
and Introits.' Gratitude is due to the editor of Lyra Eucharistica for 
directing attention to this deficiency, and endeavouring to supply it. 
And since the above was written we have had the i Appendix to 
Hymns Ancient and Modern/ with six Eucharistic hymns, and the 
new Appendix to the S. P. C. K. book, with three. 

Two Greek writers of the eighth century — S. Andrew of Crete and 
S. John Damascene — 'have produced Eucharistic hymns very similar 
in their beginning, but otherwise quite different. The former ~ is, 
; Oh, the Mystery, passing wonder,'' in Dr. Neale's translation • the 
latter, 3 'Christ, we turn our eyes to Thee.' The mediaeval hymns 

1 Of the books put forth as supplements to this hymnal, Mr. Barnes's contains 
ten Eucharistic hymns; Mr. Jellicoe's thirty-eight; Mr. Palmer's eight; Mr. 
Nicholson's three. 

2 To fieya M-wrrypiov. 3 M£ya to M.wrrijpiov. 

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50 EnglisJi Hymnology. 



of the Western Church, which have met with the widest acceptance, 
and which have been most often translated, are those of S. Thomas 
Aquinas. ' Now, my tongue, the mystery telling/ is translated from 
one of his hymns x by the compilers of ' Hymns Ancient and 
Modern.' We may be astonished to find a translation of it in the 
• New Congregational [Nonconformist] Hymn Book.' It there 
begins, ' Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's Glory.' One stanza is 
omitted, and the expression of several lines is considerably weakened. 
Another of the same author's hymns, 2 ' Thee we adore, O hidden 
Saviour, Thee,' has been admirably adapted for English use by J. R. 
Woodford. There is a curious alteration in some hymn-books 
of the last stanza, the two concluding lines of which should run 
thus : — 

* To gaze on Thee unveiled, and see Thy Face, — 
The vision of Thy Glory and Thy Grace.' 

Neale's version, i Humbly I adore Thee, hidden Deity,' and 
Caswall's translation, i O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore Thee/ are 
more literal, but less suitable as English hymns. S. Thomas's vesper 
hymn on the Eucharist 3 is not very happily rendered by Mr. 
Chambers, ' Let this our solemn Feast.' 'The Word descending 
from above' is Caswall's translation from another 4 of S. Thomas's 
hymns. His longest and most elaborate sequence, 5 i Laud, O Sion, 
thy Salvation,' can hardly be adapted for use in our services. From 
the last two stanzas are taken Sir H. W. Baker's version, ' Lo ! the 
Angels' food is given,' which first appeared in the introits to ' Hymns 
Ancient and Modern.' Here also, until they transferred it to the 
Appendix, the compilers gave the hymn ' The heavenly Word 
proceeding forth,' from S. Thomas's ' Verbum Supernum prodiens.' 
They have based their translation on that of Neale. Gerard Moultrie 
has admirably rendered the prayer of the cherubic hymn in the 

1 Pange, lingua, gloriosi. 2 Adoro Te devote, latens Deitas. 

3 Sacris solemniis juncta sint gaudia. 
4 Verbum Supernum prodiens. 
6 * Lauda, Syon, Salvatorem,' — the part used as a hymn begins 'Ecce Panis 
Angelorum.' 



English Hymnology. 5 1 

Liturgy of S.James, 'Let all mortal flesh keep silence.' 1 Neale's 
hymn, ' Draw nigh, and take the Body of the Lord/ is translated from 
a Bangor antiphonary • the original 2 is at least as old as the seventh 
century. The Canterbury Hymnal gives a beautiful translation from 
an ancient anthem, 3 ' O Bread to pilgrims given,' also translated in 
■ O Food that weary pilgrims love/ by the compilers of ' Hymns 
Ancient and Modern.' A sixteenth-century sequence, 4 translated by 
A. M. Morgan, ' The sun that lights this happy day/ deserves to be 
better known, as do also two other hymns by the same translator, 
' Christ sits at His Own Board/ 5 and i Hail ! Flesh of Christ the 
Regal.' 6 A selection from one of S. Bernard's long hymns 7 appears 
in Ray Palmer's translation, ' Jesus, Thou Joy of loving hearts/ as 
an Eucharistic hymn. 

The German hymns on the Holy Communion seem mostly 
adapted rather for private meditation than for church use. Miss 
Winkworth's translations from Kern, 8 ' Oh, how could I forget, 
Him;' from Tersteegen, 9 ' Jesus, Whom Thy Church doth own;' 
and from Rist, 10 ' O living Bread from Heaven ; ' are examples of this. 
On the other hand, Rambach's eucharistic hymn, 11 ' O Lord, Who on 
that last sad eve/ in Miss Cox's translation, is well suited for public 
worship, though too long to be used without curtailment. From the 
Italian of S. Alphonso is translated R. A. Coffin's beautiful hymn, 
' When the loving Shepherd.' 13 

Our most popular and very beautiful hymn, ' My God, and is Thy 
Table spread,' is by the Nonconformist preacher, Philip Doddridge. 
It is very curious to notice how its assertion of sacramental doctrine 
has been strong enough to offend some Church of England compilers. 
In Hall's Collection, verse 2 stands thus : — 



1 liy/jo-dro) irao-a <rap% pporeia. 2 Sancti, venite, Corpus Christi sumite. 

3 O Esca viatorum. 4 Hodiernae Lux diei. 

5 Recolamus sacram Ccenam. 6 Ave ! Caro Christi Regis. 

7 'Jesu, Dulcedo Cordium/ from 'Jesu, dulcis memorial The authorship is 
disputed. 

8 28te fotmt id) Setn ttcrgcffcn. 9 Sefu fcer £)u fiijt afteine. 

10 2£ie tool)! l)C[ft £u getabet. n Sttein Sefu, fcer S)u sot fcem Sc^eiten. 

12 Partendo dal Mondo, l'amante Pastore. 



52 English Hymnology. 



* Hail, sacred feast, which Jesus makes ; 
Memorial of His Flesh and Blood 1 
Blest, who with lively faith partakes 
That sacred cup, that heavenly food.' 

John Wesley's sacramental hymn, ' All hail, Redeemer of mankind/ 
asserts plainly the sacrifice of the altar, and evidently implies a daily 
Celebration. Charles Wesley's hymn, ' Victim Divine, Thy grace we 
claim/ ends with the following stanza : — 

* We need not now go up to heaven, 

To bring the long-sought Saviour down ; 
Thou art to all already given, 

Thou dost even now Thy Banquet crown : 
To every faithful soul appear, 
And show Thy real Presence here.' 

To Josiah Conder, a Nonconformist minister, we owe the hymn,: 
' Bread of Heaven, on Thee I feed/ The beautiful lines beginning 
' O God unseen, yet ever near/ were contributed to Hall's collection 
by Edward Osier, a layman of the Church of England. James 
Montgomery has left two Eucharistic hymns, one of which, 'According 
to Thy gracious Word/ has attained great popularity. Dr. Neale has 
a beautiful hymn for the Sunday evening after Communion, ' O Jesu, 
once for sinners slain.' Dr. Wordsworth's i Son of God, Incarnate 
Word/ is too long. In his other hymn, ' The waters were Thy path/ 
there is very poetically brought out a comparison between our 
Lord's unexpected Presence at Capernaum and His Presence in the 
Holy Communion. Heber's i Bread of the world, in mercy broken/ 
though beautiful, is somewhat short, and its peculiar metre makes it 
difficult to lengthen it by the addition of a doxology. Of Bonar's 
two hymns, l True Bread of Life, in pitying mercy given/ and ' Here, 
O my Lord, I see Thee face to face/ the latter has more depth, but 
the former is perhaps the more widely known, ' Lamb of God, 
Whose dying Love ' is re-cast, and greatly changed from Charles 
Wesley's ' Lamb of God, Whose bleeding Love.' Mrs. Alexander's 
glorious poems on the Eucharist, ' O Jesu, bruised and wounded 
more, and ' He cometh, — on yon hallowed Board/ could scarcely 
have been intended for public worship ; but they are admirably fitted 



English Hy nmo logy. 53 



for meditation during any pause in the Service before receiving. R. 
H. Baynes's ' Jesu, to Thy Table led/ and ' Great Shepherd of Thy 
ransomed flock/ may deservedly be placed in a very high rank as 
ante-Communion hymns, as may also • Lord, when before Thy 
Throne we meet/ a hymn contributed in January, 1838, to the Church 
of England Magazine, by the Rev. Tressilian George Nicholas. Of 
Faber's two best-known Eucharistic hymns, ' Jesu ! my Lord, my 
God, my All ! ' l and ' Jesu, gentlest Saviour ! ' the latter alone is 
adapted for English use. Sir Archibald Edmonstone's ' This is My 
Body, take and eat/ and Mrs. Charles's ' No Gospel like this feast/ 
must be noticed. The Rev. R. Brown Borthwick has written some 
lines not withput merit, 'Come, O Jesu, to Thy Table.' ' Once, only 
once, and once for all ' is by Dr. Bright ; ' Alleluia, sing to Jesus ' by 
W. Chatterton Dix. Dean Alford's ' Lo. the Feast is spread to-day/ 
is rather a remonstrance with non-communicants than a hymn for 
communicants. Dr. Irons's ' O Saviour, now at God's Right Hand/ 
and L. Tuttiett/s 'When sink our hearts in famine sore/ deserve to 
find a place in our hymnals. For the Communion of the Sick, a 
beautiful hymn by Miss Caroline M. Noel may be placed in the 
sufferer's hands. It will be found in her little book, ' The Name of 
Jesus, and Other Verses for the Sick and Lonely/ and begins 
thus ; — 

c Saviour, above all heavens ascended high. 

With Angels and Archangels waiting nigh, 

Yet still a wounded Lamb upon the Throne. 

Still with a human Heart, remembering Thine Own.' 

As a processional hymn before a Celebration, J. W. Hewett's 6 In the 
Name of God the Father' may be used. For a Celebration at sea, 
may be used a hymn by W. C. Dix, given in his 'Altar Songs/ It 
begins : — 

* Thou Who of old didst hush the storm. 
And bid the tempest cease, 
We pray Thee, in this awful hour. 
To shed on us Thy peace,' 



1 This hymn must be distinguished from Xo. 178 in { Hymns Ancient and 
Modem/ which begins similarly, but is the composition of Rev, Henry Collins, 
having been taken from his ' Hymns for Missions,' 



54 English Hymnology. 

For Holy Baptism, most of our well-known hymns are from modern 
sources. It may be interesting to compare two translations of 
Benjamin Schmolck's baptismal hymn -} — 

* Jesus, Lord, Thy servants see, 

Yielding here obedience willing ; 
Lo ! this infant comes to Thee, 

Thus Thy mandate blest fulfilling : 
; Tis for such, Thyself declarest, 
Thou the Kingdom now preparest. 

* Loudly sounds Thy warning plain, 

Us with holy fear imbuing — 
i ' He must here be born again, 

Heart and mind and life renewing, 
Born of water and the Spirit, 
Who My Kingdom will inherit." J 

Frances Elizabeth Cox. 

1 Blessed Jesus, here we stand, 

Met to do as Thou hast spoken, 
And this child, at Thy command, 

Now we bring to Thee, in token 
That to Christ it here is given, 
For of such shall be His Heaven. 

4 Yes, Thy warning Voice is plain, 
And we fain would keep it duly — - 
44 He who is not born again, 

Heart and life renewing truly, 
Born of water and the Spirit, 
Will My Kingdom ne'er inherit." ? 

Catherine Winkworth, 

Miss Winkworth's version of a hymn by Albert Knapp, 2 ' O Father- 
Heart, Who hast created all/ is much better known than i Thy 
parents' arms now yield thee/ 3 her other translation from the same 
author. The latter is addressed, like Dean Alford's, ' In token that 
thou shalt not fear/ to the infant baptized ; — thus departing from the 
rule, on which some compilers insist, that hymns should be addressed 

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3 2tn3 teiner (£(tcrn ?lrmcn. 



Englisli Hymnology. 55 

to God. Another of Miss Winkworth's translations, from a hymn by 
Rambach, 1 ' I am baptized into Thy Name/ is more suitable for 
Confirmation or for Adult Baptism. ' Glad sight ! The holy Church,' 
is the Rev. F. Pott's imitation from a Syriac hymn, 2 and well deserves 
a place in every Church-of-England hymnal. ' With Christ we 
share a mystic grave ' is by Dr. Neale. ' Lamb of God for sinners 
slain ' is by James Russell Woodford. Two hymns for Adult Baptism 
by Charles Wesley have been given in the Sarum Hymnal. Their 
merits are rather doctrinal than poetical. They begin i Come Father, 
Son, and Holy Ghost,' and ' Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. ; 
We owe to Sir Henry Baker ' 'Tis done; — that new and heavenly 
birth,' one of our most beautiful post-baptismal hymns. For the con- 
clusion of the Service, L. Tuttiett's ' Now our work of love is done,' 
and Hewett's ' Jesu ! now r Thy new-made soldier,' may also be used. 
'Saviour, Who Thy flock art feeding,' by W. A. Muhlenberg (1836,) 
and J. Moultrie's 'O Guide of faithful Israel/ are intercessions for 
those to be baptized. J. G. Deck's hymn, ' Around Thy grave, Lord 
Jesus/ is apparently meant to be sung by adults immediately before 
or after receiving Baptism. 

For Confirmation, the compilers of ( Hymns Ancient and Modern/ 
have given a translation of their own from ' Veni, Creator Spiritus.' 
Wesley's ' Soldiers of Christ ! arise/ or Hewett's ' To Thy blest 
courts, great God and King/ may be sung before the service; 
Caswall's ' Look in pity, Lord of Glory,' Chope's ' Spirit of Wisdom, 
guide Thine Own/ Wordsworth's ' O God, in Wliose all-searching 
Eye/ or the Rev. W. Bright's ' Behold us, Lord, before Thee met/ 
may be used before the laying on of hands ; and after it, Dr. Neale's 
' Blessed Saviour, Who hast taught me,' or Wordsworth's ' Our hearts 
and voices let us raise,' may be sung by the newly confirmed ; or 
Pott's ' Up, soldiers of the Saviour's Cross/ an exhortation to them 
by the congregation, may conclude the service. ' My God, accept 
my heart this day ' is by Matthew Bridges. Cotterill's ' Look down 

1 3d) bin ^etauft auf Xeinen Sftamen. 
2 The original may be seen, with a Latin Prose translation, in Daniel's Thesau- 
rus, vol. iii., page 226. 



5 6 English Hymnology. 



O Lord ! and on our youth,' may be sung on the Sunday before a 
Confirmation • and Doddridge's ' O happy day, that fixed my choice/ 
seems adapted to the Sunday after. 

Our Wedding hymns are not very numerous. ' Rise high, ye 
notes, a glad ovation,' * Miss Cox's translation from an anonymous 
hymn, is well suited for use before the service. George Wither's 
hymn for ' those who purpose a contract of marriage/ is so exceed- 
ingly quaint, that a brief specimen must be given : — 

' We see no contradicting cause 
But that we may be joined, 
Without infringement of the laws 
Whereby we are confined.' 

Another of his hymns, however, i To grace, O Lord, a marriage 
feast/ is very beautiful, and might be used with little or no alteration. 
Charles Wesley's marriage hymn, ' Thou God of Truth and Love,' is 
one of his best. But the noblest song of praise- for the wedding-day 
which we possess is Keble's, ' The Voice that breathed o'er Eden/ 
There is indeed scarcely any hymn equal to it in comprehensiveness: 
— its retrospect stretches back to the union of our first parents ; its 
prospect extends to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Sir H. W. 
Baker's hymn, ' How welcome was the call/ may be sung after the 
Service, or Collyer's shorter and somewhat abrupt hymn, ' Deign this 
union to approve.' Bishop Wordsworth's marriage hymn begins 
' How blest are hearts which Christ the Lord.' 

The introduction of a hymn into the Funeral Service may often be 
of great comfort to the mourners ; but though we may strongly recom- 
mend its use, great care must be exercised that the sanctity of sorrow 
should have even its prejudices respected. When the corpse is 
leaving the church, some short and appropriate hymn may be sung ; 
such as ' Christ will gather in His Own/ 3 Miss Winkworth's transla- 
tion from Zinzendorf and Gregor, or some stanzas from her version 
from Michael Weiss, ' Now lay we calmly in the grave,' 3 or Caswall's 
'Days and moments quickly flying.' The sentences at the grave 

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3 Sftun taff't iinS fcen Seib fcegtafcen. 



English Hymnology. 57 



(except the first, taken from Job xiv. 1, 2) are from a hymn of the 
tenth century by Notker, 1 popularly known in Germany through 
Luther's translation, 2 which Miss Winkworth has rendered into 
English, i In the midst of life behold.' Dr. Watts's Ninetieth Psalm, 
* Our God ! our Help in ages past,' or Wesley's ' Come, let us join 
our friends above/ from which f Let saints on earth in concert sing' 
is taken, may be used in the service ; but perhaps the most appropri- 
ate hymn is Milman's ' When our heads are bowed with woe.' Dr. 
Bonar's ' A few more years shall roll ' is also suitable. \ Cease, ye 
tearful mourners,' 3 is a translation by Caswall from Prudentius, and, 
like Notker's hymn, a great favourite in Germany, where Nicholas 
Hermann's translation of it was long sung at every funeral. 
Monsell's ' Soon and for ever,' and J. E. Bode's ' O death, the change 
of earthly things/ though beautiful in their way, are not suitable for 
introduction into a service where the chief aim should be to tranquil- 
lize the feelings, rather than to excite them. Nor can such special 
intercessions for the rest of the departed one as G. Moultrie's 
' Brother, now thy toils are o'er/ be sung without some risk of offence 
to surviving friends, or, on the other hand, of encouraging in them an 
exaggerated idea of the power of prayer to affect the condition of the 
departed. For the funeral of an infant, Dr. Irons's hymn, ' Oh, who 
are they, so pure and bright/ may be used, or Miss Wink worth's 
' Tender Shepherd, Thou hast stilled,' translated from Wilhelm 
Meinhold. 4 In the second line of this hymn there is a somewhat 
daring alteration in 'Hymns Ancient and Modern/ 'brief for 
' long/ As funeral hymns adapted rather to meditation than to song, 
we may instance Toplady's ' Deathless principle, arise ; ' C. Wesley's 
' Happy soul ! thy days are ended ; ' John Newton's ' Oft as the bell, 
with solemn toll/ and ' In vain my fancy strives to paint; ' Heber's 
' Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee ; ' and 
Milman's 'Brother, thou art gone before us.' Pope's Ode of the 
Dying Christian to his Soul, ' Vital spark of heavenly flame/ was 
certainly written for music, but can hardly be called a hymn. It is 

1 Media m vita, in morte sumus. 

2 2)ittten tuir in Se&eit fint>. 3 Jam moesta quiesce querela. 

4 ®uiet £kt, 5>u Jjaj* geftttft. 



5 8 English Hymnology. 



partly imitated from the verses composed by the dying emperor 
Hadrian. 

On behalf of those at sea, Mr. Whiting's beautiful hymn, ' Eternal 
Father ! strong to save/ may be sung, or Littledale's hymn in ' The 
People's Hymnal/ ' O God, Who metest in Thine Hand.' Those at 
sea may use Wordsworth's sailor's hymn, * The Ark of God in safety 
rode,' or stanzas selected from it; — or Keble's Morning and Evening 
Hymns for those at Sea may be found useful. G. Thring's 'The 
ocean hath no danger,' is too much confused in idea, and too much 
involved in expression, to be recommended. Montgomery's thanks- 
giving for deliverance from perils on the sea, ' They that toil upon the 
deep,' falls far below its author's average merit. 

For Ember Days our hymns are mostly modern. One of Dr. 
Neale's ' Hymns for Children/ that for Ascension Day, ' Now to our 
Saviour let us raise,' has been adapted as an ember hymn by the 
omission of the first stanza. In the altered form it begins ' Christ 
is gone up : yet ere He passed.' In the second series of these 
hymns four ember hymns are given. From that for Lent, ' O God, 
we raise our hearts to Thee/ the well-known hymn, ' The earth, O 
Lord, is one great field/ is taken. ' Pour out Thy Spirit from on 
high/ is by James Montgomery. ' O Guardian of the Church Divine/ 
is a compilation from several hymns, which owes its present shape to 
the Rev. T. Chamberlain. Littledale's ' Set upon Sion's wall ; varies 
in its accentuation so much, that it must be difficult to sing it 
throughout to the same tune. ' O Thou Who makest souls to shine/ 
is a beautiful hymn by Bishop Armstrong. 

The hymn in the Ordination Service is given in two forms in oar 
Prayer-Book. The c. m. version appears, with a few trifling variations, 
in Sternhold and Hopkins's Supplement. This hymn has already 
been noticed among the hymns for Whitsun-Day. The last six stanzas 
of Wordsworth's ' O Lord, Who in Thy Love Divine ' may be used 
if an additional hymn is required. For the Consecration of a Bishop, 
a more striking and appropriate hymn than Charles Wesley's ' Prayer 
for the Bishops ; would be hard to find. It begins ' Draw near, O 
Son of God, draw near.' 

For Home Missions may be recommended a small book, ' Hymns 



English Hymnology. 59 



for Missions, etc./ edited by the Rev. H. Collins. ' I was wandering 
and weary/ by the Rev. F. W. Faber, and Bonar's ' I was a wandering 
sheep/ * treat the recovery of the straying more successfully than 
Littledale's ' Jesu, most loving One/ a translation from ' Jesu dulcis- 
sime ! e Throno Glorias. ' Several of Bonar's hymns have some 
fitness for use in English Missions ; — ' I lay my sins on Jesus/ and 
' I heard the Voice of Jesus say/ may be given as examples. Miss 
Ada Cambridge's ' Light of the world ! O shine on us/ is especially 
beautiful. Faber' s l O come to the merciful Saviour that calls you/ 
is an earnest exhortation to repentance and confession, an invitation 
more gently urged in ' Sweet is the Spirit's strain/ a hymn given 
without name by Mr. Jellicoe in his Supplemental Collection. 

In behalf of Foreign Missions, Bishop Heber's hymn, ' From 
Greenland's icy mountains/ is the best known. It was written at 
Hodnet, in 1820. The alteration of i Ceylon' into ' Java ' in the 
second line of the second stanza seems to have been made by Heber 
himself while in India. Watts's Seventy-second Psalm, ' Jesus shall 
reign where'er the sun/ and Marriott's 'Thou, Whose Almighty 
Word/ are deservedly popular. From America we have Bishop 
Doane's ' Fling out the banner ! let it float,' and A. C. Cox's 
* Saviour, sprinkle many nations.' ' Spread, O spread, thou mighty 
Word/ 3 is Miss C. Winkworth's translation from Bahnmaier, poorly 
rendered in Miss Cox's \ Far and near, Almighty Word.' Archdeacon 
Churton's version of Psalm lxvii., c God of Grace, O let Thy Light/ 
is given in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern 'as a missionary hymn. 
' Almighty God, Whose only Son/ was written by Sir H. W. Baker 
for the Appendix. Of James Montgomery's missionary hymns, ' O 
Spirit of the Living God/ ' Sow in the morn thy seed,' and ' Fall 
down, ye nations, and adore,' are perhaps the best, (except his 
Seventy-second Psalm, already noticed as an Epiphany hymn.) 
6 Lord, a Saviour's Love displaying,' by Ernest Hawkins; ' Souls in 
heathen darkness lying,' by Mrs. Alexander; 'O God, from Thee 
alone/ by R. K. Greville ; and W. Shrubsole's ' Arm of the Lord ! 

1 Founded partly on ' Arte mira, miro consilio.' 
2 223 a(te, tralte nafy' unto fern. 



60 English Hymnology. 

awake, awake !' must be mentioned. CotterhTs 'O'er the realms of 
pagan darkness/ seems to have borrowed its first lines from W. 
Williams's i O'er the gloomy hills of darkness/ Watts' s i How beau- 
teous are their feet/ Montgomery's ' Hark, the song of Jubilee/ and 
E. Perronet's 'All hail the power of Jesu's Name/ may be sung as 
missionary hymns ; or stanzas may be selected from c The Banner 
of the Cross/ by Dr. Wordsworth. For missions to the Jews, Lyte's 
paraphrase of Psalm xiv. 7, (B. V.) ' Oh, that the Lord's Salvation/ 
or Joyce's ' Oh, why should Israel's sons, once blessed/ maybe used. 
Kelly's ' On the mountain's top appearing/ and Sir Edward Denny's 
tO Zion, when thy Saviour came/ are also appropriate. 




VII. 

HYMNS FOR CHILDREN', HYMNS FOR TIMES OF TROUBLE 
AND THANKSGIVING. 

The plan of these articles was stated at the outset as a following of 
the order observed in our Book of Common Prayer. Now, our 
Church has thought fit to assign a prominent place in her public ser- 
vice to the catechizing of children, and has incorporated the Cate- 
chism with her Occasional Offices. I have, however, ventured to 
defer till now considering the hymns which correspond with the 
Catechism, because children's hymns seem to me too important to 
be dismissed with a brief notice. 

* Hymns,' writes the Rev. E. Monro, 1 ' are peculiarly the voice and 
expression of childhood. Many a truth has sunk into a child's heart 
[by their means] which would otherwise have lain cold and barren on 
its surface. Hymns become the means of conveying them to the 
inmost soul, and half a child's conscious Christianity often consists 
in its hymns. We cannot be too careful in selecting them for chil- 
dren, and in storing their minds with them w T hen young.' 

The best plan of a child's hymn-book would seem to be one 
which should treat in turn the subjects of the Catechism. If the 
doctrinal usefulness of such a book is to be systematic, and not 
merely occasional and accidental, it must evidently follow closely in 
the track of that dogmatic teaching which it is intended to impress 
and enforce. The best writer of a child's hymn-book would be one 
whose poetical genius has been early developed, and whose sympa- 
thies with a child's ways of speaking and thinking have been brought 
out strongly by circumstances and opportunities. Others may write 
hymns about children, but can scarcely ever succeed in writing hymns 
for them. I must beg leave to illustrate the causes of success by 
the instance of a lady whose ' Hymns for Little Children ' are with- 

1 ' Parochial Work,' p. in. (Second Edition.) 



62 EnglisJi Hymnology. 



out question the most successful poetical exposition of the Church 
Catechism that has been ever put forth. It will, I am sure, be most 
interesting to all true lovers of hymns to know how very early this 
authoress gave proof of her powers of versification. It was a custom 
of her father's to receive into a box in his study, called 'The 
Budget,' contributions composed by all his children, as soon as they 
could write. The contents were read with criticisms every Saturday 
evening. The handwriting was to be disguised, but no disguise 
could conceal from her father and mother that their daughter 
'Fanny' was born a poetess. One day, whilst she was with a cousin 
on a visit to the Marquis of Abercorn, some one in the house found 
one of her poems, and, suppressing the name, sent it up to Lord 
Abercorn, only stating that it was written by a child of eleven. 
The marquis, whose literary judgment was in constant request, re- 
ceived the poem while the authoress was in the room, and rather 
hastily pushed it away to a friend on the other side of the table, 
asking him to look at it. The friend was much struck by it ; and 
Lord Abercorn reading it over with him, they agreed that it could 
never have been written by so young a child. ' But,' said Lord 
Abercorn, 'let Fanny take it to her mother when she goes home. 
Her mother will know pretty well whether it is likely that a child 
could write that poem/ Accordingly ' Fanny' was made the bearer 
of her own composition to her mother, and, on her reaching home, 
the authorship was of course at once revealed. 

More than twenty years ago, the Rev. J. Keble wrote, concerning 
Mrs. Alexander's ' Hymns for Little Children,' — 6 [I] think and 
hope . . . that they will win a high place for themselves in 
the estimation of all who know how to value true poetry and primi- 
tive devotion.' The sale of more than three hundred thousand 
copies has justified the very high opinion then given. The book 
consists of forty-one hymns, of which fourteen are on the Creed, nine 
on the Lord's Prayer, and ten on the Commandments. As in- 
stances of the admirable way in which doctrines are brought within 
the comprehension of children, see the hymn on the Incarnation, 
6 Once in Royal David's city,' or the second of those on the Holy 
Catholic Church, ' The faithful men of every land.' For the practi- 



Englisli Hymnology. 63 



cal application of precepts which a false delicacy too often ignores 
in the instruction of children, see the hymns, ' We were washed in 
holy water/ and ' I love the little snowdrop flower/ The arguments 
and illustrations are all not only such as children can be made to 
understand, but such as they naturally use. To country children 
especially, the flowers, the birds, the flocks, form the natural poetry 
of life • and no book will attract them so surely, or fix itself so 
deeply in their love, as one which presents a counterpart of 
out-door things, and brings them to bear upon their daily duties, 
and upon that life within them which is ever becoming more and 
more conscious. It is very much to be regretted that the engravings 
of Messrs. Dalziel in the large edition are in no sense explanatory 
of the text, and are, with few exceptions, peculiary unsuited to 
children. Seven of the hymns are in a metre scarcely to be found 
elsewhere. The following stanza may be taken as a specimen \— 

' If we may turn and cling to Him, 
Before Whose Face the angels fall, 
Sure we must give Him our whole hearts, 
And love Him best of all.' 

The argument in these lines I have known quoted, and applied to 
his own conduct, by a child six years old. For village schools these 
hymns, properly explained, are invaluable, and it is a pity that there 
is not a still cheaper edition for their use. The t Hymns Descriptive 
and Devotional' are not nearly so easy, though there are many of 
them much more suitable in language and in metre than the first 
morning hymn, ' Once again the radiant morning,' or the first even- 
ing hymn, ' 'Twas at evening when the voice of greeting.' The 
' Moral Songs' of the same authoress are excellent; the ' Narrative 
Hymns for Village Schools ' are very good, but suffer somewhat by 
comparison with the ' Hymns for Little Children/ the ideas of 
which are made to do duty a second time in the Narrative Hymns. 
Hymns 361, 362, and 363 in the i Appendix to Hymns Ancient and 
Modern ' are by Mrs. Alexander. 

Isaac Williams attempted with no very great success to present 
the Paris Breviary hymns in a translation suited for children's use. 

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64 English Hymnology. 

He entitled his book i Ancient Hymns for Children;' but we must 
remember that few of the Latin hymns there translated are older 
than the seventeenth century. The ' Child's Christian Year/ pub- 
lished in 1 841, with a preface by Keble, contains about thirty hymns 
by Isaac Williams, mostly translations, and nearly as many by 
Joseph Anstice. We find there Keble's earliest hymn, ' Our God in 
glory sits on high,' given for the First Sunday after Easter. The 
hymn for Christmas Day there given was written by the youngest 
daughter of the Dean of Winchester, who died aged fourteen. 

* Think on the mercy of our God, 

Our great Redeemer's Love ; 
How the dim waste of earth He trod, 

And left His Throne above ! 
And all, frail man, His foe, to save, 
And show him hopes beyond the grave. 

1 He came not in a warrior's path, 

With mighty armies strong ; 

He came not as a God in wrath 

Avenging Judah's wrong : — 
To preach on earth His Father's Word, 
A little Child, came Christ the Lord. 

* Glad was our Saviour's natal morn, 

Angels rejoiced in Heaven 
That " unto us a Child is born, 

To us a Son is given ; " 
And Angels left their home on high 
To tell of Christ's Nativity.' 

Miss E. Wiglesworth is the author of ' Verses for the Christian Year,' 
— a child's book of poetry of high average merit, though wanting in 
originality, and sometimes in appropriateness to the festivals for 
which hymns are given. Those for the Sundays of Advent, es- 
pecially ' Thrice Blessed Word of God,' are good, as is also, 
' Father, I my robes would keep/ the poem assigned to S. Bar- 
tholomew's Day. 

In very strong contrast with the latter efforts to provide suitable 
hymns for children appear Dr. Watts's ' Divine and Moral Songs/ 



English Hymnology. 65 

Scarcely anything can be more injurious to a child of lively ima- 
gination than the constant contemplation of horrible things, the 
oft-recurring pictures of hell, and of sudden death as a punishment 
to children's sins." Probably no croquemitaine of the nursery ever 
did half the harm that has been wrought in children's minds by such 
lines as these : — 

' God quickly stopped their wicked breath, 
And sent two raging bears, 
That tore them limb from limb to death, 
With blood, and groans, and tears.' 

Most of the hymns seem to be specially adapted to very naughty 
children, living in very bad company. The hymns for Sunday evening, 
' Lord, how delightful 'tis to see,' and the ' General Song of Praise 
to God/ beginning ' How glorious is our Heavenly King,' are per- 
haps the best. Dr. Watts is sometimes completely a slave to the 
exigencies of rhyme in his children's hymns, and still more so in the 
' Moral Songs.' Hence the picture of the ' madman' who ' will fling 
about fire, And tell you " Tis all but in sport," ' is dragged in, and 
the rose is called 6 the glory of April and May. 7 

An infinite improvement upon Dr. Watts's ' Divine and Moral 
Songs ' were the ' Hymns for Infant Minds,' first published by Ann 
and Jane Taylor about sixty years ago. Ann, the surviving sister, 
afterward became the wife of Mr. Joseph Gilbert. To her are due 
the well-known lines beginning 'I thank the goodness and the grace.' 
There are some scattered touches in these hymns, which seem to 
have been derived from the grand scenery of North Devon and 
Cornwall, among which the . writers of them spent many years. A 
few of the hymns are somewhat deficient in simplicity of language, 
eg., that entitled ' The Hay Fields.' But the ideas are almost always 
simple, and tolerably natural to children's minds. The hymn of 
confession, ' Lord, I confess before Thy Face,' that of encourage- 
ment, l God is so good that He will hear,' and that on attending 
public worship, 'When to the House of God we go,' are especially 
good : indeed, the last approaches very nearly to the excellencies of 
Mrs. Alexander. An apologetic foot-note has been inserted in re 

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66 English Hymnology. 

cent editions concerning the use of the word ' Sabbath' in the sense 
of ' Lord's Day.' The two hymns on pride were greatly admired by 
Archbishop Whately as one of the best practical descriptions of 
Christian humility and its opposite ; but there is something rather 
unfair in the first, ' The way to find out Pride.' After directing a 
minute self-examination, the hymn boldly asserts that of the forms of 
pride enumerated — 

* Some one will suit you, as you go, 
And force your heart to tell you so : 
But if they all should be denied, 
Then you're too proud to own your pride/ 

The Lyra Innocentium of Keble is rather a volume of poetry for 
parents than of hymns for children. Childish comprehension will, 
however, enter into the spirit of such lines as ( The Gleaners,' ' The 
Boy with the Five Loaves,' and ' The Walk to Church.' The ves- 
pers and compline poems for Christmas, that for Easter Eve, and the 
' Redbreast in Church,' are also suitable pieces for children. 

Elizabeth Strafford's i Hymns for the Collects ' are on the whole 
good and poetical, especially that for the Sunday after Ascension- 
Day, 6 Beyond the star-lit sky.' Dr. Neale's ' Hymns for Children,' 
in three series, have supplied some hymns for general church use. 
Most of them are very beautiful : we may especially notice the Sun- 
day evening hymn, ' The Apostles were assembled,' that for Thurs- 
day evening, ' Thou art gone up, O Lord, on high,' the five hymns 
for various hours of the day, and that for the Holy Innocents, ' Let 
children, Lord, Thy Presence seek.' These are all in the first 
series ; the second is for older children ; and the third series supple- 
ments the other two. We have not among these hymns the very 
curious lines by Dr. Neale, transcribed into • The People's Hymnal,' 
which begin ' Christian children hear me,' l and of which the rhymes 
are in some instances even more unsuitable than in 

' How elect your 
Architecture ! ' 



These originally appeared in ' The Churchman's Companion ' where they are 
even more painfully ludicrous than in the version found in ' The People's Hymnal. ' 



English Hymnology. 67 



and have not, as that couplet has, the excuse of being cramped by a 
Latin metre. 

Dr. Littledale's Eucharistic hymn for children, ' I worship Thee 
Lord Jesu,' exacts an adoration of the outward Elements of the 
Lord's Supper, scarcely suitable for a child. ' Come unto Me, ye 
weary,' by W. C. Dix, is beautiful ; as are also Montgomery's ' Glory 
to the Father give/ and Prynne's ' Jesu, meek and gentle/ The 
following lines were contributed to 'The People's Hymnal' by a little 
boy only ten years old : — 

' O God, bow down Thine Ear to earth, 

And hear Thy children's cry, 
And fill our weak and throbbing hearts 
With blessings from on high. 

' Forsake us not, O loving Lord, 

But hear us while we pray ; 
And, Jesu, when at last we die, 
Wipe all our tears away. 

' O Jesu, there is naught to fear, 
If Thou Thy blessing give ; 
Keep us from every danger free, 
And guard us, while we live. 

' Give us a heart to love Thee, Lord, 

And Thine Almighty Son, 
And may we love the Holy Ghost, 
While this short life we run. Amen.' 

' Now the day is over ' is a successful hymn for a child by the Rev. 
S. Baring Gould. F. T. Palgrave's ' Little Child's Hymn for Night 
and Morning/ beginning 'Thou that once, on mother's knee,' is 
rendered almost absurd by its endeavours to be simple and child- 
like. W. W. How's ' Lord, Thy children guide and keep/ ends 
every stanza with a couplet from which two lines of Mr. Dix's 
Epiphany hymn seem to be taken : — 

' Holy Jesu, day by day 
Lead us in the narrow way.' 

'Come sing with holy gladness/' is by J. J. Daniell, 'Seeing I 



68 English Hymnology. 



am Jesu's lamb/ 1 is Miss Winkworth's translation from Luise H. 
von Haym. ' There's a Friend for little children,' given anony- 
mously in ' The People's Hymnal/ is by Albert Midlane. ' There is 
a happy land/ is by Andrew Young ; ' When, His salvation bringing/ 
by Joshua King ; ' Star of morn and even,' by F. T. Palgrave. The 
Rev. E. H. Plumptre wrote the beautiful hymn, ' O Light, Whose 
beams illumine all.' Sir H. W. Baker's hymn, ' Lord Jesus, God 
and Man/ begins somewhat like Faber's ' O Jesu, God and Man/ 
but the similarity extends little further than the first two lines. ' O 
Holy Lord, content to dwell,] is given almost unaltered' 2 ' from How 
in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern.' i Here we suffer grief and pain/ 3 
is by Thomas Bilby; 'Blessed Father! great Creator!' by John 
Cawood ; c Children of the Heavenly King/ is by John Cennick. 
Mrs. Hemans's ' Child, amidst the flowers at play/ is scarcely a 
hymn. Benjamin Gough's address to an afflicted child, ' Gentlest 
lamb of Jesu's fold/ is exceedingly good. Gottfried Hoffman's 
lines to a dying child, ' Depart, my child ! the Lord thy spirit calls/ 4 
will be found in Miss Borthwick's ' Hymns from the Land of Luther.' 
' I think, when I read that sweet story of old/ was written by Mrs. 
Samuel Luke, then Miss Jemima Thompson, in 1841. Several of 
Anne Shepherd's ' Hymns Adapted to the Comprehension of Young 
Minds' are good, in spite of a certain flippancy in style, and some- 
times in metre : — ' God has a family on earth,' is perhaps the best. 
Charles Wesley's ' Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,' is deservedly well 
known. ' Gracious Saviour, gentle Shepherd,' is also Charles 
Wesley's, varied slightly by Keble. ' Thy Cross, O Lord, the holy 
sign/ is from the Rev. Hugh Stowell, almost unaltered. Dr. Words- 
worth has an excellent children's hymn, ' Heavenly Father, send 
Thy blessing.' The Rev. John Moultrie (father of the Rev. Gerard 
Moultrie, author of ' Hymns and Lyrics/) has written several good 
hymns for children: 'O Lord, a wondrous story,' is his. ' Jesus, 

1 2Bei( tcf) Sefu <&d)afitin Bin. 
2 The version in ' The Book of Praise, ' ' content to live, ' is an alteration frors 
Mr. How, made without his consent. 

Perhaps imitated from 2Bivb bag nicfyt ftreube fetytt? ' by H. C. >on Schweinitz. 
4 3eifc^4;in, tnein jvinb. 



Englisli Hymnology. 69 



tender Shepherd, hear me,' is by M. L. Duncan. * The Children's 
Home Hymn Book,' edited by Erskine Clarke, contains some beauti- 
ful hymns. The ' Hymns for Infant Children,' published by Masters, 
are not always perfectly poetical, but are good in their way. Some- 
times they borrow from Mrs. Alexander, sometimes from Ken; e.g. — 

' Christian child, awake ! arise ! 

Though thy heavy limbs are loth ; 
Pay thy morning sacrifice 
By a conquest over sloth ! ' 

Sometimes they are indeed original ; e.g. — 

1 Waste not precious time in dressing ; 
Be alert, alive, awake.' 

For times of trouble, Miss Winkworth's rendering from Paul 
Eber 1 may be used, 'When in the hour of utmost need,' or Cowper's 
'God of my life, to Thee I call.' Sir Robert Grant's 'When 
gathering clouds around I view,' is better suited for private use, as is 
also the case with most of Miss C. M. Noel's hymns. In times of 
war, Sir H. W. Baker's ' O God of Love, O King of Peace/ may be 
sung, or ' Give us Thy blessed peace, God of all Might, 2 a transla- 
tion from C. B. Garve in 'Hymns from the Land of Luther.' 
'Dread Jehovah, God of Nations,' is by T. Cotterill; 'Great King 
of nations, hear our prayer,' is by J. H. Gurney. Richard Massie's 
translation from Spitta, 3 'Our life is often dark,' may be used in a 
time of dearth \ for which Dr. Littledale's ' O God of Mercy, God 
of Love,' is appropriate if it results from lack of rain. In a bad 
harvest, Onderdonk's lines, 'Although the vine its fruit deny,' or Sir 
H. W. Baker's translation from Benjamin Schmolk, ' What our 
Father does is well,' 4 may fitly be used. For time of pestilence, 
Dr. Bullock's ' In grief and fear to Thee, O Lord,' is very suitable, 
or Mrs. Steele's 'Almighty Lord, before Thy Throne.' For cattle 
plague, Neale's hymn, 'All Creation groans and travails,' may be 
used. 

^SBenn totr in §oc$ffcen S^et^en fetn.' The German is from the Latin of Joachim 

Camerarius. 
2 ®t6 £}emen ftrieben une, £) £err fcer <©t&r£e ! 
3 £>a$ Zibtn toivb oft trufce. 4 2£aS ©ott i§ut, ba3 tfi wo$lget§an. 



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For harvest thanksgiving we have Dean Alford's hymn, ' Come, ye 
thankful people, come/ given, with alterations greatly reprobated by 
its author, in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern/ The object of the 
changes there made in the second stanza has evidently been to 
reduce the writer's somewhat confused ideas derived from different 
parables to unity and consistency. The purpose of the changes in 
the last two stanzas is less evident. Anstice's ' Lord of the Harvest ! 
once again/ and Sir H. W. Baker's ' Praise, O praise our God and 
King/ 1 may also be used. While the harvest is being gathered in, 
Neale's hymn, 'God the Father, Whose creation/ or Alice [not 
Anne] Flowerdew's ' Fountain of Mercy, God of Love/ or Dix's ' To 
Thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise/ may be sung in church. ' Praise 
to God, immortal praise/ is by Mrs. Barbauld ; ' Lord of the 
harvest, Thee we hail/ by J. H. Gurney; 'O Father, Whose 
Almighty Hand/ by Rev. J. W. Hewett. Miss Cox ; s hymn, 'We 
come, our hearts with gladness glowing/ is from the German 2 of 
Liebich. ' We plough the fields and scatter/ was taken from a 
translation from the German, 3 supplied by the Rev. C. S. Bere. For 
general thanksgiving, perhaps our best hymn is ' Now thank we all 
our God/ 4 Miss Winkworth's rendering from Martin Rinckart. ' God 
the Lord has heard our prayer/ by H. H. Wyatt, is also good. 
For restored public health, we have ' O Father of mercies, O Spirit 
of Love,' by M. F. Tupper ; for the restoration of peace, Mont- 
gomery's ' Come and behold the works of God/ and Miss Winkworth's 
translation from Paul Gerhard t, 'Thank God it hath resounded.' 5 

1 * Praise, O praise our Heavenly King,' is evidently only an altered version of 
Sir H. W. Baker's hymn ; it is attributed to Trend in ' The People's Hymnal.' 
2 , 2Btr fommen, £>eine £itfb ju feierrt.' It is omitted in her second edition. 
3 The original is by Matthias Claudius (1783) and begins ,3m 2lnfang toar'S auf 
(Jrfcen ' : — the part given is imitated from the third and following stanzas, , 2Biv 
Vpgen unt mx jireuen.' See Monthly Packet, New Series, Vol. XL, p. 214. 
4 ,3 f Zun banfet afle ®ott/ from Ecclus. 1. 22, 23. 5 ©ott lefr, ltunift er fatten. 



VIII. 

GENERAL HYMNS, METRICAL PSALMS, ETC. 

We now come to the consideration of hymns very difficult to classify, 
except by such arbitrary divisions as would rather hinder than help 
our readers. We may, however, take first of all the various versifica- 
tions of Psalms, not hitherto noticed, which claim a position in our 
hymn-books. 

Seeing that versified psalmody had received some sort of sanction, 
many early compilers seem to have felt constrained to burden their 
hymn-books with at least a hundred and fifty so-called Psalms, mostly 
based on the Old and New Versions, though sometimes much more 
suitable and poetical. We could not here give a general history of ail 
the various English rhymed versions of the Psalms without departing 
from our original plan ; we will therefore confine our notice almost 
exclusively to the most successful attempts. The sixth Psalm appears 
to much greater advantage in 6 Gently, gently lay Thy rod,' by H. F. 
Lyte, that in the same author's l. m. version, i Correct us. Lord, we 
know it good.' Both Churton's versions of Psalm viii., ' O Lord, our 
Lord, in all the world,' and ' Lord of earth's wide realms, alone,' are 
very good. In the Old Version of the eighteenth Psalm, by Thomas 
Sternhold, we have an exception to the ordinary prosaicism of this 
translator. It begins, ' O God, my Strength and Fortitude ; ' but the 
verses best known are the ninth and tenth, beginning, ' The Lord 
descended from above/ The nineteenth Psalm, in Addison's well- 
known paraphrase, 'The spacious firmament on high/ is better 
adapted for reading as a poem than for singing as a hymn. Conder's 
' The heavens declare His glory/ is an excellent rendering of this 
psalm. The twenty-second Psalm, like all those which describe the 
Sufferings of the Saviour, has been wofully maltreated by most of 
its translators. Addison's twenty-third Psalm, ' The Lord my pasture 
shall prepare/ is unaccountably omitted in some of the most popular 



72 English Hymnology. 

hymn-books recently published. Wesley's version of the twenty- 
fourth Psalm, ' Our Lord is risen from the dead/ though somewhat 
stilted in style, has gained some notice as a hymn for Ascension Day. 
Montgomery's version of Psalm xxvii., ' God is my strong Salvation/ 
deserves to be better known. Psalm xxxi. has given the key-note to 
two very beautiful hymns, Lyte's ' My spirit on Thy care/ and 
Harriet Auber's i The Lord Who hath redeemed our souls/ Tate 
and Brady's thirty-fourth Psalm, i Through all the changing scenes of 
life/ has obtained admission into many hymnals, on what ground it is 
rather hard to say. Lyte's thirty-fifth Psalm, i O plead my cause, my 
Saviour, plead,' and his thirty-seventh, ' O God of love, how blest 
are they,' are both good. ' Jehovah, let me know mine end,' the 
Rev. J. F. Thrupp's version of Psalm xxxix., has some beauty. 
Spohr's glorious anthem has helped to preserve in our hymnals, ' As 
pants the hart for cooling streams,' Tate and Brady's rendering of 
Psalm xlii. This psalm is also well translated in Bishop Lowth's 
'As pants the wearied hart for cooling springs/ and in John 
Bowdler's 'As panting in the sultry beam.' Dr. W T atts's 'My 
Saviour and my King,' though beautiful as a version of Psalm xlv., 
is far surpassed by Keble's ' Fair art Thou, bright and fair,' and Miss 
Auber's 'With hearts in love abounding.' ' There is a River, pure 
and bright/ by Montgomery, is founded on Psalm xlvi. Psalm xlviii. 
is well rendered in Watts's ' Great is the Lord our God.' Lyte's 
version of Psalm liv., ' Save me by Thy glorious Name/ is somewhat 
marred by the strangeness of its metre, as is also ' O had I, my 
Saviour, the wings of a dove/ 1 his translation of Psalm lv. Watts 
has well adapted Psalm lvii. for use as a hymn in ' My God, in 
Whom are all the springs.' 'Hail, gracious Source of every good,' 
by Miss Auber, is founded on Psalm lxi. It is really strange that 
the beautiful harvest hymn contained in Psalm lxv. has never been 
worthily rendered into Fnglish verse. Doddridge's ' Eternal Source 
of every joy,' is weaker than the New Version, and Montgomery's, 
' The God of Harvest praise/ can scarcely be called even a para- 

1 This does indeed nearly resemble the ' Old 104th ' metre ; but an additional 
syllable in the first two lines of each stanza imparts an Anacreontic levity to the 
whole, which is most unsuitable in a hymn. 



English Hymnology. 73 



phrase from the Psalm. Tate and Brady have given a rendering of 
Psalm lxvii., ' To bless Thy chosen race,' far excelling their average ; 
whereas Lyte's ' God of Mercy, God of Grace/ is scarcely worthy 
of its author. In Dr. Watts's ' Jesus shall reign where'er the sun,' 
from Psalm lxxii., (already noticed as a missionary hymn,) an unac- 
countable alteration 1 has been made in the second line of the third 
stanza in many copies of ' Hymns Ancient and Modern/ where 
' loose ' is given instead of ' lose,' which Watts wrote, and which 
makes a much clearer sense. In Morell and How's collection, 
1 burst ' is substituted, not very felicitously. Miss Auber's ' Whom 
have we, Lord, in Heaven but Thee,' is founded on Psalm lxxiii. ; 
Montgomery's ' In time of tribulation/ on Psalm lxxvii. ' Thou 
gracious God, and kind/ is William Goode's paraphrase of Psalm 
lxxix. The Scotch Presbyterian version of Psalm lxxxiv., 'How 
lovely is Thy dwelling-place,' rises in one or two stanzas above the 
usual doggrel of its translators. Of this Psalm, Montgomery, in 
'How amiable, how fair,' and Watts, in ' Lord of the worlds above/ 
have given renderings in the same metre as Psalm cxlviii. New 
Version. Conder's ' How honoured, how dear/ and Tate and 
Brady's ' O God of Hosts, the mighty Lord/ are not unworthy 
translations of this Psalm. Milton's ' How lovely are Thy dwellings 
fair,' can scarcely be used as a hymn. ' Glorious things of thee are 
spoken,' John Newton's paraphrase of Psalm lxxxvh., begins well, 
but breaks down utterly in the rhymes of the third and fifth stanzas. 
Psalm xc. is perhaps better rendered in Watts's 'Our God, our help 
in ages past/ than in any other metrical version. The alteration to 
1 O God ' in the first line seems to have been originally made by the 
Wesleys, when transcribing the hymn for their collection. The New 
Version of Psalm xcv., ' O come, loud anthems let us sing,' has 
some stanzas suitable for Church use. Keble's version of Psalm 
xcvi., ' Sing the song unheard before/ deserves to be better known. 
Watts's version of Psalm xcviii., 'Joy to the world; the Lord is 
come/ is suitable as an Advent hymn. The authorship of the Old 

1 It is but fair to the compilers, however, to say, that according to their last 
account, ' loose ' is only an accidental error. 



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Version of Psalm c. is disputed. No initials are given to 'All, 
people that on earth do well,' in the earliest copies, but in later ones 
the Psalm is ascribed to J. H. (i e. John Hopkins.) In the Scottish 
Psalter of 1564 the initials W. K. are given, whence some have con- 
cluded that the psalm is by William Kethe, Rector of Okeford, 
Dorset. In the library of St. Paul's Cathedral is a psalter bearing 
date 1 561, in which the initials of Thomas Sternhold are attached to 
it, but this is almost certainly a mistake. The New Version, ' With 
one consent let all the earth/ is too familiar in our ears to be fairly 
criticized. It lacks the majestic simplicity of the Old Version, but 
has more smoothness of diction. The last verse seems partly copied 
from the older rendering. Watts's ' Plain Translation,' beginning, 
'Ye nations round the earth rejoice,' is less known than his para • 
phrase, which, as altered by Wesley, begins, ' Before Jehovah's 
awful Throne/ 1 Lyte's paraphrase of Psalm ciii., beginning, 'Praise, 
my soul, the King of Heaven/ is given, with some improvements, 
and the omission of an inferior stanza, in ' Hymns Ancient and 
Modern.' 

The Old Version of the 104th Psalm has been greatly admired by 
some hymn-writers, but it is difficult to say exactly wherein its ex- 
cellencies consist. It is the composition of William Kethe, and 
begins, ' My soul, praise the Lord.' Sir R. Grant's ' O worship the 
King,' is founded upon it. In Sweden, Wallin's paraphrase of this 
Psalm, beginning , ©jung, mitt fjcil ! ben ©rigeS lof/ is perhaps as 
great a favourite as the ' Old iooth ; is with us. Howitt's translation 
of it, ' Sing, my soul, the Eternal's praise/ may be seen in Newland's 
' Forest-life in Norway and Sweden.' As a specimen of the extent to 
which unacknowledged alteration has been sometimes carried, the 
following may be interesting : it is given in R. Carus Wilson's 
Psalms and Hymns/ as the Old Version of this Psalm : — 



1 The original begins with an inferior stanza : — 

1 Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice ; 
Let every land His Name adore ; 
The British isles shall send the noise 
Across the ocean to the shore.' 



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* My soul, praise the Lord, His greatness proclaim : 
Jehovah, our God ! how glorious Thy Name ! 
Surpassing in honour, dominion, and might ; 

Thy throne is the heaven, Thy robe is the light.' 

* The glorious sky a curtain is made ; 
Thy chamber of state on ocean is laid ; 
The clouds are a chariot Thy glory to bear ; 
Thou guidest the whirlwind, Thou walkest on air. 

* As rapid as fire, the spirits on high, 

To speed Thy commands, all zealously fly ; 

The earth on immovable basis sustained, 

Is fashioned and fixed as Thy wisdom ordained. 

' O measureless Might ! Unspeakable Love ! 
While angels delight to praise Thee above, 
Thy humbler creation, though feeble their lays, 
With true adoration shall sing to Thy praise.' 

The version in the Cleveland Psalter, by Archdeacon Churton, 
beginning, ' My soul, praise the Lord, speak good of His Name/ 
retains the metre of the Old Version, and is beautiful and poetical, t 
but will hardly meet with favour as a church hymn. In Keble's 
version of Psalm cvi., ' Praise ye the Lord, for good is He,' the first 
three stanzas are good, but in an unusual metre. James Merrick's 
version of Psalm cvii., 'To God above from all below/ is a fairly 
satisfactory paraphrase; it keeps much closer to the original than 
Addison's i How are Thy servants blest, O Lord ! ' but has less 
poetic force. Lyte's version of Psalm cviii., ' My God, my King/ is 
much spoiled by its metre. Bishop Mant has fairly rendered Psalm 
cxiii. in * Alleluia ! praise the Lord.' Milton turned Psalm cxiv. 
into English verse at the early age of fifteen ; but his translation, 
beginning ' When the blest seed of Terah's faithful son/ is not suitable 
for singing. Cennick's ( Not unto us, but Thee alone,' from Psalm 
cxv., would be very good, were it not marred by its imperfect rhymes. 
Watts's version of Psalm cxviii., 'This is the day the Lord hath 
made,' forms a suitable Sunday hymn. Scarcely any of the metrical 
renderings of Psalm cxix. are fit for church use. Keble's rendering 
of verses 153-160 is in a curious variety of short metre. The follow- 
ing may serve as a specimen : — 



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' Mine anguish and my woe 
Behold, and let me go ; 
My heart is ever on Thy laws, 
Deliverer, plead my cause." 

The following version of Psalm cxxi. seems to be due to Edward 

Osier:— 

' From Sion's hill my help descends ; 

To God I lift mine eyes ; 
My strength on Him alone depends, 
Who formed the earth and skies. 

* He ever watchful, ever nigh, 

Forbids my foot to slide ; 
Nor sleep nor slumber seals the Eye 
Of Israel's Guard and Guide. 

* He on my side, arrayed in might, 

His shield shall o'er me spread ; 
Nor sun by day, nor moon by night, 
Shall hurt my favoured head. 

* Safe shall I go, and safe return, 

While He my life defends, 
Whose Eyes my every step discern, 
Whose Mercy never ends.' 

Tate and Brady's translation, ' To Sion's hill I lift my eyes/ is good. 
John Bowdler's version of Psalm cxxiii., ' Lord, before Thy Throne 
we bend,' deserves to be mentioned. J. Montgomery's ' Out of the 
depths of woe,' from Psalm cxxx., is less known than 'Lord, for ever 
at Thy side,' his rendering of Psalm cxxxi. His rendering of Psalm 
cxxxiii. is rather poetical than hymn-like. It runs thus : — 

' How beautiful the sight 

Of brethren who agree 

In friendship to unite, 

And bonds of charity ! 

J Tis like the precious ointment, shed 

O'er all his robes, from Aaron's head. 

' 'Tis like the dews that fill 

The cups of Hermon's flowers, 
Or Zion's fruitful hill, 
Bright with the drops of showers, 
When mingling odours breathe around, 
And glory rests on all the ground. 



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* For there the Lord commands 
Blessings, a boundless store, 
From His unsparing Hands, 
Yea, Life for evermore : 
Thrice happy they who meet above, 
To spend eternity in Love.' 

Some stanzas of Keble's translation of Psalm cxxxvi., ' Praise the 
Lord, for He is Love/ will be found in the S. P. C. K. Hymnal. 
Churton's version, though partly imitated from former translators, has 
great animation and freshness. It begins, ' praise the Lord, for 
He is Love.' 

Milton's translation, ' Let us with a gladsome mind,' though written 
when he was quite a boy, is one of his best, and with very few alter- 
ations supplies the material for an excellent hymn of Thanksgiving. 
Thomas Churchyard's solitary contribution to the Old Version is a 
translation of this Psalm, beginning, ' O praise the Lord benign.' 
The New Version of Psalm cxxxvii., ' When we, our wearied limbs to 
rest,' ekes out its second stanza somewhat less absurdly than ' When 
we did sit in Babylon,' Whittingham's rendering in the Old Version. 

1 We hanged our harps and instruments 

The willow-trees upon : 
For in that place men for their use 
Had planted many one? 

Old Version. 

' Our harps, that when with joy we sung, 
Were wont their tuneful parts to bear, 
With silent strings neglected hung 
On willow-trees that withered there? 

New Version. 

Churton's version, 'In thraldom's lonely woe,' is much better than 
most of the older renderings. Lyte's ' Far from my heavenly home,' 
is given as a paraphrase of this psalm ; but the second stanza, which 
most nearly resembles the original, is omitted in 6 Hymns Ancient 
and Modern.' Goode's version, 'Far from Zion, far from home/ is 
excellent in idea, but weak and unpoetical in expression. Mant's 
''Behold me unprotected stand,' from Psalm cxlii., has some beauty, 
To Mant is usually attributed a paraphrase of Psalm cxlviii., begin- 



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ing * Praise the Lord ! ye heavens adore Him ;' but this is a 
mistake. Mrs. Mant inserted it in her ' Parents' Anthology,' (1813) 
but she took it from ' Psalms, &c, for the Foundling Chapel ' (1809), 
where it appears without name. The best of Simon Browne's 
attempts to versify the Psalms is perhaps his rendering of this, which 
begins : — 

1 Oh for a hymn of universal praise ! 
Its Maker's fame may every creature raise : 
Ye lofty heavens, begin the solemn sound, 
And let it spread the wide creation round.' 

Many of the versifiers of Psalm cxlix. have followed the metre of 
Tate and Brady's ' O praise ye the Lord, prepare your glad voice.' 
We may notice as examples, Thomas Park's ' My soul, praise the 
Lord, speak good of His Name,' Goode's ' Prepare a new song, 
Jehovah to praise,' and Lyte's ' O praise ye the Lord with heart and 
with voice.' The last two are certainly not improved by the rhymes 
in the middle of the lines. In Keble's version, ■ O sing to the Lord, 
sing out a new strain,' the rhymes ending the lines are alternate. 
Churton's version of Psalm cl., 6 Praise God, Who in the Holiest 
dwells,' is chiefly taken from Miles Smyth, whose version of the Book 
of Psalms appeared in 1668. 

Before we proceed to the consideration of paraphrases from other 
parts of the Bible, we may state a few of the objections which exist 
against making these versifications, together with metrical Psalms, 
serve a.s the staple of Church hymnody. In the first place, we have 
sufficient provision made for the singing of the Psalms in the mi- 
ni etrical version, in which the compilers of our Prayer-Book appear 
to have carefully suited the rhythm to the music of our own English 
chants. We have thousands of unmetrical anthems, setting every pas- 
sage of Holy Scripture that is suitable for singing, and a great many 
that are not, to music. And some of these are within the singing 
powers of even a village choir. As to the average poverty of metri- 
cal paraphrases, we cannot do better than quote the criticism of a 
Scotch reviewer i 1 — 

1 ' Hymnals and Hymn Books,' in the Gospel Messenger, April 20, 1858. 



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* These rhymed bits of Scripture always remind us of the rhymed multiplication- 
table. While one hymn of the old authors will contain the spirit of fifty different 
passages, showing a knowledge of Scripture now attained by few, it was left for 
the days of ignorance of the eighteenth century to suppose that a hymn was pro- 
duced by stretching four or five verses of Scripture on the rack of rhyme.' 

Yet there are some paraphrases which must be admitted to be excel- 
lent hymns; being for the most part such as have been half unconsciously 
moulded on the ideas of Scripture, rather than deliberately done into 
verse from its very words. Doddridge's ' O God of Jacob, by Whose 
Hand/ 1 may be taken as an example : most of Logan's improvements 
in it change it from the actual language of the passage on which it is 
founded. Of course every good hymn must take its key-note from 
some passage in the Word of God ; and when this is a moderately 
short text, it is certainly an advantage to have it given out before the 
hymn is sung. But it could hardly be said that all hymns are para- 
phrases of their texts, though it is often difficult to draw the line of 
distinction. Of Michael Brace's paraphrases, the best known are, 
'O happy is the man who hears/ 2 from the Old Testament, and 
' Where high the heavenly Temple stands/ 3 from the New. Logan's 
dishonest appropriation of Brace's hymns is one of the most dis- 
graceful blots in the annals of literature. The story is told at full 
length in Mr. Grosart's edition of Michael Brace's works. Bruce and 
Logan were college friends at Edinburgh. The former left the 
University of Edinburgh for a life of ill-paid and severe toil, ended 
by a lingering consumption, in his twenty-second year. The latter 
became a popular Presbyterian preacher at Leith. On hearing of 
Brace's death, Logan obtained from his parents the MS. of his poems, 
on pretence of publishing it for their benefit. After a long delay he 
had seven of the poems printed as Brace's, professing to have added 
others to make up a miscellany. The non-appearance of the ' Gospel 
Sonnets' in this volume brought the deceased poet's father to Edinburgh 
to remonstrate with Logan, who replied that he had lost the book. 
But he afterwards published, in 1781, 6 Poems by the Rev. Mr. Logan,' 
wherein he appropriated as his own several of the poems in Brace's 

1 Gen. xxviii. 20-22. 2 From Prov. iii. 13-17. 

3 From Heb. iv. 14-16. 



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MS. It is satisfactory to know that his treachery to his deceased 
friend met with its deserved reward. He died poor and neglected 
in London. His coadjutors in the preparation of the Scotch Para- 
phrases were Dr. Hugh Blair, Dr. Morrison, and William Cameron. 
Of their united production, (in which free use has been made of 
Watts's and Doddridge's writings,) it is impossible to speak highly. 
Some of Watts's best paraphrases seem to have been excluded in 
consequence of their being in short metre ; as for instance, ' How 
beauteous are their feet,' 1 and 'To God the only wise.' 2 

The following quaint old lines, by William Cardale, may be interest- 
ing to some of our readers. Their date is about 1635. 

' Though blossomes all from fig-trees fall, 

And vines noe fruit shall bring ; 
Yet on my God will I rely, 

And to Him prayses sing. 
Though the olive-tree shall fruit-less be, 

Yielding noe suppling oyle ; 
Yet on my God will I rely, 

Whose mercies never faile. 

' Though the harvest field no meate shall yield, 

But threaten famine sore ; 
Yet on my God will I rely, 

And still His Grace implore. 
Though nought is seen in pastures greene, 

The flocks exiled the folde ; 
Yet on my God will I rely, 

His bounty makes me bolde. 

' Though cattle all, both great and small, 

Should perish from our coastes ; 
Yet on my God will I rely, 

For He's the Lord of Hostes. 
Though the herds of neat our enemyes eat, 

And leave none in the stalle ; 
Yet on my God will I rely, 

And prayse His Name for all. 



From Isaiah, lii. 7-10 ; and S. Matt. xiii. 16 > 17. r From S. Tude. 24, 25. 



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' Though the creature failes, and nought avayles 

Whereon fraile men depend ; 
Yet on my God will I rely, 

Till time shall never end. 
With heart and voyce will I rejoyce, 

For God's my Rock and strength : 
Yea, on my God will I rely, 

To be supply'd at length. 

1 Doth God correct ? It shall affect 

My heart with due submission : 
I'll be content and patient 

In every condition. 
Or low or high, if poverty 

Or ritches me befall, 
Lord, I'll resign my will to Thine, 

And bless Thy Name for all.' 

They are taken from Hab. iii. 17, 18. 

Very few paraphrases from the New Testament possess great excel- 
lence as hymns. The danger of dwindling into mere paraphrase has 
always beset such attempts as Wordsworth's and Hensley's to provide 
hymns founded on the Epistles and Gospels. The hymn by Lewis 
Hensley for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, ' We were baptized into 
the Saviour's Death/ 1 is the most successful of his efforts to versify 
any part of the Epistles. Several of Heber's hymns are paraphrased 
from the Epistles and Gospels of the Sundays to which they are 
allotted: — 'In the sun and moon and stars/ 2 'The God of glory 
walks His round/ 3 and e Lo, the lilies of the field/ 4 may serve as 
examples. One of the poet Cowper's most popular paraphrases, 
' Hear what God the Lord hath spoken/ 5 is marred by an extra- 
ordinary failure of rhyme in the second stanza, of which the first four 
lines run thus : — 

1 There, like streams that feed the garden, 

Pleasures without end shall flow, 
For the Lord, your faith rewarding, 
All His Bounty shall bestow.' 



1 From Romans vi. 3-11. 2 S. Luke xxi. 25-31. 3 S. Matt. xx. 1-8. 
4 S. Matt. vi. 25-30. 3 From Isaiah lx. 



82 English Hymnology. 

A. C. Coxe's ' Who is this with garments gory/ 1 is a very beautiful 
poem, but does not appear exactly suitable for a hymn. ' Who cometh 
here, from Edom's rocks/ in Lyra Mystica, by Archdeacon Mant, 
is open to the same remark. 

1 From Isaiah lxiii. 




IX. 

GENERAL HYMNS.— {Continued.) 

There is, for all true hymns, a sphere of usefulness besides that 
which they possess in what may be called their public capacity as 
forming part of the Church services. They may be used in private 
devotion as fit subjects for meditation ; they may thus be taken more 
closely to the heart of each individual Christian, while they attune 
his spirit the better to join in the songs which are the prelude to the 
eternal harmonies of heaven. It is on hymns designed chiefly for 
meditation and private use that we would now venture a few remarks, 
only premising that we are unavoidably giving a very incomplete 
view of these hymns, and passing over very many that are worthy of 
notice. 

The number of hymns suitable for this purpose is greatly increased 
by the fact that, to most educated persons, the quaintness of ex- 
pression which prevents the works of our older sacred poets from 
being sung in church, rather recommends them for, than disqualifies 
them from, private use. There are two very interesting volumes 
published by the Parker Society : — ( Select Poetry of the Elizabethan 
Period, chiefly Devotional, edited by Edward Farr, Esq.' They con- 
tain many curious specimens of versions of the Psalms by Sir Philip 
Sidney and his sister, the Countess of Pembroke, by Archbishop 
Parker (in whose version they are preceded by ( Arguments,' and 
followed by Collects), by William Hunnis, by Francis Davison, and 
one by Queen Elizabeth herself. The following is from 6 Certaine 
short and pithy Praiers unto Jesu Christ our Saviour,' by W. 
Hunnis : — 

' O Jesu sweet, grant that Thy grace 

Alwaies so worke in mee, 

I may desire the thing to doo 

Most pleasing unto Thee. 



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1 Jesu meeke, Thy Will be mine, 

My will be Thine also ; 
And that my will may follow Thine 
In pleasure, paine, and wo ; 

* O Jesu ; what is good for me, 

I say best knowne to Thee ; 
Therefore, according to Thy Will, 

Have mercie now on mee. 
# * # 

* O Jesu, oft it greeveth me 

And troubleth sore my mind, 
That I so weake and fraile am found, 
To wander with the blind. 

1 O Jesu deare, Thy lasting light, 
Whose brightness doth excell, 
The clearness of Thy beams send downe, 
Within my heart to dwell. 

* O Jesu, quicken Thou my soule, 

That it may cleave to Thee ; 
And for Thy painefull Passion sake, 
Have mercie now on mee. ? 

We have an anonymous translation from S. Peter Damiani's 'Ad 
perennis vitas fo ntem,' beginning — 

* My thirsty soule desires her drought 
At heavenly fountaines to refresh.' 
• 
Some of the classical metres appear, e.g., in A. W.'s 'Saphickes upon 
the Passion cf Christ' and Abraham Fraunce's hexametrical version 
of the Psalms, but t.iey are not very successful. Some of the poems 
are in no sense devotional, and such lines as those by J. Rhodes 
against the Papists might well have been omitted. 

There is scarcely any need to direct attention to the poetry of 
George Herbert, the best known, and most frequently quoted, writer 
of quaint sacred verses. His lines seem to have been written with 
the very purpose of repelling all but the most thoughtful and medi- 
tative readers. His own words are the best possible apology for the 
want of poetic smoothness with which some have charged him : — 



English Hymnology. 85 



' The finenesse which a hymne or psalrne affords, 
Is, when the soul unto the line accords. 

* He who craves all the rninde, 
And all the soul, and strength, and time, 
If the words onely ryme, 
Justly complains that somewhat is behinde 
To make His verse, or write a hymne in kinde. 

1 Whereas if th' heart be moved, 
Although the verse be somewhat scant, 
God doth supplie the want.' 

The strange fashion in which he often plays with his metre, his 
words, and his thoughts, is yet always subordinated to a spirit of 
deep reverence ; and when once the tangled web of his language is 
unravelled, it shows the beautiful transparent simplicity of his mind. 
That so few can use his poems as he himself did, singing them to his 
own music, results perhaps less from a scanty appreciation of their 
merits, than from the lack of that pure and noble spirit which 
inspired him. It was on the last Sunday of his life that he composed 
and sang to his lute some of his well-known lines on Sunday :— 

f O Day most calm, most bright, 
The fruit of this, the next world's bud, . 
Th' indorsement of supreme delight, 
Writ by a Friend, and with His Bloud ; 
The couch of Time ; Care's balm and bay ; 
The week were dark, but for thy light ; 
Thy torch doth show the w r ay.' 

We must confine our notice of George Herbert to one more speci- 
men, perhaps the easiest to comprehend of all his hymns : — 

* King of Glorie ! King of Peace ! 

I will love Thee, 
And that love may never cease, 
I will move Thee. 

* Thou hast granted my request, 

Thou hast heard me ! 
Thou didst note my working breast^ 
Thou hast spared me ! 



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' Wherefore with my utmost art 
I will sing Thee, 
And the cream of all my heart 
I will bring Thee. 

1 Though my sinnes against me cried, 
Thou didst cleare me ! 
And alone, when they replied, 
Thou didst heare me ! 

* Seven whole dayes, not one in seven, 

I will praise Thee. 
In my heart, though not in heaven, 
I can raise Thee. 

* Thou grew'st soft and moist with tears, 

Thou relentedst, 
And when Justice call'd for fears, 
Thou dissentedst. 

1 Small it is, in this poore sort 
To enroll Thee. 
Ev'n eternitie is too short 
To extollThee.' 

Wales, the native country of George Herbert, produced, some 
twenty years later, a poet, whose sacred verses, strangely neglected 
in his own days, are yet more strangely but little noticed now. 
Henry Vaughan, named from his birth-place The Si/urist, 1 has few of 
the difficulties we find in George Herbert, and writes frequently in a 
more definitely hymn-like style. To Lyte's edition of his Silex 
Scintillans (i.e. Sparks from the Flint-stone), an excellent biography 
of Vaughan is prefixed. There can be no doubt that the Siiurist 
studied, and sometimes closely imitated, the poems of Herbert. 3 
Thus we find stanzas in Vaughan much resembling those given 
above, and beginning — 

* King of Comforts ! King of Life ! 

Thou hast cheered me ; 
And when fears and doubts were rife,, 
Thou hast cleered me ! 



1 As being born among the Silures, the tribe which peopled South Wales. 

2 He speaks of himself as a convert, won by the holy life and verse of Mr. 
George Herbert. 



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* Not a nook in all my breast, 

But Thoufill'stit; 
Not a thought that breaks my rest, 
But Thou kill'st it. 

* Wherefore with my utmost strength 

I will praise Thee, 
And as Thou giv'st line and length, 
I will raise Thee ; 

* Day and night, not once a day, 

I will blesse Thee ; 

And, my soul, in new array 

I will dresse Thee.' 

Though Vaughan never displays any distinctive Romanism like 
Crashaw, he is not always so moderate in his language as might be 
desired. Perhaps almost the only lines of his which have found 
acceptance in any of our hymnals are those inserted in 6 The People's 
Hymnal ? which have so grievously offended some reviewers, wherein 
he thus addresses the Blessed Virgin : — 

' Thou art the true Love -knot ; by thee 
God is made our allie ;' 

But it is not fair to judge the author by this really exceptional 
specimen of his language. The following more fairly represents his 
style. Its subject is ' Departed Friends.' 

' They are all gone into the world of Light ! 

And I alone sit lingering here ! 
Their very memory is fair and bright, 
And my sad thoughts doth clear. 

' It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, 
Like stars upon some gloomy grove, 
Or those faint beams in which this hill 1 is drest 
After the sun's remove. 

* I see them walking in an air of glory, 
Whose light doth trample on my days ; 
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, 
Meer glimmering and decays. 



1 Sketh-rock. 



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' O holy Hope, and high Humility ! 
High as the heavens above ! 
These are your walks, and you have shew'd them me, 
To kindle my cold love. 

* Dear, beauteous Death ! the Jewel of the Just ! 

Shining nowhere but in the dark ; 
What mysteries do lie beyond the dust, 
Could man outlook that mark ! 

* He that hath found some fledg'd bird's nest may know 

At first sight if the bird be flown ; 
But what fair dell or grove he sings in now, 
That is to him unknown. 

* And yet, as Angels in some brighter dreams 

Call to the soul when man doth sleep, 
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted theams, 
And into glory peep.' 

His lines on Peace, beginning, ' My Soul, there is a Countrie,' are 
very beautiful. His ' Wreath ' is an evident imitation from George 
Herbert's. His lines, ' King of Mercy, King of Love,' remind us of 
the similarly irregular metre found in Jeremy Taylor's ' Full of Mercy, 
full of Love.' There is a fair selection from Vaughan in Fosbery's 
' Hymns and Poems for the Sick and Suffering,' where may also be 
seen extracts from many seventeenth-century writers, whom we have 
not space to mention here. The hymns in Dean Hickes's Devotions 
are by John Austin, an author who joined the Church of Rome about 
the middle of that century. Though intended for private use, many 
of them may, with very little alteration, be used in church. Of those 
which can only be used in private we may notice i Let others court 
what joys they please,' i Fain would my thoughts fly up to Thee/ and 
1 And now, my soul, canst thou forget.' The works of Creation are 
beautifully commemorated in his hymn, ' Hark, my soul, how eveiy 
thing.' ' My God, to Thee ourselves we owe/ is also by Austin. 1 

In the voluminous compositions of Watts, the Wesleys, Simon 
Browne, and other writers of their time, we see an increasing tendency 
to make hymns, intended for public use, so full of individual and 

1 * With all the powers my poor soul hath/ is taken by Austin, with alterations, 
from Crashaw's translation of 'Adoro Te devote? by S. Thomas Aquinas. 



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personal aspirations and experiences, as to render them only suitable 
for private meditation. Sometimes, indeed, the self-exaltation of the 
individual becomes so absurd as to render the hymn wholly worth- 
less; e.g. — 

* When I can read my title clear 

To mansions in the skies, 
I bid farewell to every fear, 
And wipe my weeping eyes.' 

Dr. Watts. 

Frequently, however, the use of the singular number in the hymns of 
these authors is only, so to speak, an accidental feature, which it is 
often undesirable to change for church use, perhaps rather from their 
being familiar to us in their original forms than from anything else. 1 
In Dr. Watts's hymns, the Morning Song, ' Once more, my soul, the 
rising day/ and the Evening Song, ' Dread Sovereign, let my evening 
song,' may be used as hymns of meditation, as may also ' Alas ! and 
did my Saviour bleed/ or the lines beginning — 

' Arise, my soul, my joyful powers, 
And triumph in my God ; 
Awake, my voice, and loud proclaim 
His glorious Grace abroad.' 



1 I need not apologize for the following illustration of my meaning ;. — a transla- 
tion by Dr. Neale of Watts's hymn, ' When I survey the wondrous Cross/ The 
permission to reprint it was due to the kindness of the editor of The Christian 
Remembrancer. 

( O cui nee antea Cruor 
Talis se Amori junxerat ! 
O nulla Regis spines 
Corona comparabilis ! 



' Crucem sequentes prasviam, 
Qua Rex pependit Glorias, 
Per lucra damnum quserimus, 
Et temnimus superbiam. 



' O Crux, tuorum cordibus 
Tu sola sis jactatio : 
Pendentis ad Regis Pedes 
Spretae voluptates jacent. 

( Quae vana complexi sumus, 
Jam non placebunt amplius ; 
Dum per Pedes, Manus, Caput, 
Amore mixtus it Cruor ; 



' Qui debitas victorise 
Tantae rependimus vices, 
Ni, Qui redemit, nos Deo 
Fiamus ipsi victimae ? 

' Sit laus Patri; laus Filio, 
Tristi levato stipite, 
Cum Spiritu Paraxzlito 

In ssculorum saecula. Amen.' 



Here, as will be seen, the plural is substituted for the singular throughout, and the 
translation, though really very close in other respects, seems scarcely to recall the 
original hymn. 



90 English Hymnology. 

It seems almost useless to give the first lines of the very numerous 
hymns by the Wesleys, which are chiefly suitable for private use. The 
following are but a few : — ' Thou hidden love of God, whose height/ 1 
' O for a heart to praise my God/ ' Jesu, Thy boundless love to me/ 
' Father, in the Name I pray/ ' O Love Divine, how sweet thou art/ 
'Open, Lord, my inward ear/ 'God of my life, what just return/ 
' Jesu, Thou art my Righteousness/ For the death-bed of one pre- 
pared to die, his lines, l Happy soul, thy days are ended/ seem more 
suitable than Toplady's ' Deathless principle, arise !' or Montgomery's 
'Spirit! leave thine house of clay!' 2 Of John Newton's hymns, 
' How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds/ ' Come, my soul, thy suit 
prepare/ 'Why should I fear the darkest hour,' 'Approach, my soul, 
the mercy-seat/ and ' I hear the tempest's awful sound/ (the last 
specially appropriate for use at sea,) must be mentioned. But many 
more hymns of meditation are due to William Cowper. There is 
indeed a vein of melancholy pervading many of his hymns, which is 
only too well accounted for by the author's sad history. ' God moves 
in a mysterious way/ ' O Lord, my best desire fulfil,' and ' O for a 
closer walk with God/ all bear traces of having been written 'in the 
twilight of departing reason/ ' Hark, my soul ! it is the Lord/ and 
' Far from the world, O Lord, I flee,' breathe a happier spirit, as do 
also many of his translations from Madame Guyon, which are far too 
little known. ' Blest, who, far from all mankind/ 3 and ' Love is the 
Lord whom I obey/ 4 are especially good, as are also ' Night ! how 
I love thy silent shades/ 5 and indeed all those on watching to God 
in the night-season. It may be interesting to compare a stanza of 
the original French with Cowper's translation : — 

1 Tous sont obliges de T'aimer, 

Je le suis d'avantage ; 
Cent fois Tu m'as scu delivrer 
D'un mortel esclavage : 



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2 This is not among Montgomery's published hymns, though probably adapted 
by himself (from a poem written in 1803) for Dr. Collyer's collection, 18 12. 
3 From ' Heureux, qui, loin de tout le monde.' 
4 L' Amour me tient asservie. 6 Nuit, que vous m'etes favorable. 



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Mon Petit-Maitre, mon Amour, 
Que j 'expire en Toi chaque jour !' 

1 All are indebted much to Thee, 

But I far more than all ; 
From many a deadly snare set free, 

And raised from many a fall : 
Overwhelm me from above 
Daily with Thy boundless Love.' 

Some suitable pieces may be found also in Lyra Evangelica, 
translated from Malan by Miss Arnold. 

Many of Charlotte Elliott's poems are suitable for private devotion. 
Her best-known hymn, i My God and Father, while I stray/ seems 
to have been originally intended for use in this way. e O Holy 
Saviour, Friend unseen,' i Just as I am, without one plea/ and ' O 
Thou, the contrite sinner's Friend/ are also well adapted for medita- 
tion. In H. F. Lyte's sacred verses there are, besides many others 
equally worth mentioning, ' Jesus, I my cross have taken,' ' Long did 
I toil, and knew no earthly rest/' and ' When at Thy footstool, Lord, 
I bend. 5 For meditation in times of trouble there are some lines by 
Dr. Thomas Gibbons, beginning — 

'To Thee, my God, Whose Presence fills 

The earth, and seas, and skies, 
To Thee, Whose Name, Whose heart is Love, 
With all my powers I rise.' 

Very much of the sacred poetry of Germany is suitable for private 
use. The subjective character found especially in many of the 
later hymns adapts them to this end. C. J. P. Spitta's works are 
excellent for domestic edification, for which indeed they were primarily 
designed. Mr. Massie has in his Lyra Domestica, translated the 
' Psaltery and Harp ' of Spitta successfully on the whole. ' O blessed 
Sun, whose Splendour/ 1 and ' My Lord and God, Whose gracious 
Hand/ 2 deserve especial mention. His rendering of the parting 
hymn, 3 ' How mean ye thus by weeping/ though retaining the double 
rhymes of the original, is perhaps not equal to t What mean ye by 

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this wailing/ the version given in 'Hymns from the Land of Luther/ 
Spitta's poem on Patience 1 is beautifully translated in ' Christian 
Lyrics/ by M. S. M., in the lines beginning — 

* Throughout this earth in stillness 
An angel walks abroad, 
For consoling in our weakness, 
He is strengthened of the Lord/ 

Miss Winkworth's lines beginning, ' O Father-Eye, that hath so truly 
watched, 7 are from Spitta. 2 Among the older German hymns some 
of the most suitable are taken from Angelus Silesius. Space forbids 
us here to give a hitherto unpublished version of his best-known 
hymn, 3 kindly sent us by the Rev. T. L. Kingsbury, which Miss Cox 
has translated ' Love, Who in the first beginning,' and Miss Wink- 
worth, ' O Love, Who formedst me to wear/ 

Miss A. L. Waring's lines, beginning ' Father, I know that all 
my life/ are very beautiful, excelling even Miss A. A. Proctor's ' My 
God, I thank Thee, Who hast made.' In weariness of spirit, two 
hymns by F. W. Faber, 6 O Lord, my heart is sick/ and, ' I come to 
Thee once more, my God,' may be used. His lines beginning, 
' Hark ! hark ! my soul ! angelic songs are ringing,' have become 
very popular as a sacred song, under the title of the ' Pilgrims of the 
Night.' Bonar's ' Thy way, not mine, O Lord,' and ' Cease, my 
soul, thy strayings,' may well be thus used. 

The plan of regularly introducing a hymn into daily private de- 
votions is admirably carried out in the Rev. A. G. Jackson's ' Penny 
Pocket-book of Prayers and Hymns.' 4 Here we have the lines of 
Caswall, which are perhaps the best preface to a meditation upon 
death that has ever been written : — 

* Now let me close mine eyes, 
And strive to picture to myself the day, 
When, stretched in my last dying agonies, 
I here no more may stay. 



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4 We should, however, have been glad to see a hymn provided more definitely 
suitable for Sunday morning than any of those given. 



English Hymnology. 93 



* Ah ! when will be the time 
For Thee, my soul, to wing thy solemn flight ? 
Shall it be winter's snow, or summer's prime ? 

Shall it be day or night ? 



1 And will my death come slow, 
Or sudden as the lightning's vivid blast ? 
Ah me ! I cannot say, — but this I know, 
That come it must at last. 

' Oh then, since thus I live, 
Certain of death, uncertain of the day, 
This grace to me, immortal Saviour, give, 
In Thy dear Love I pray ; 

' That whatsoe'er befall 
Of good or ill, I evermore may be 
Ready, whenever sounds Thy solemn call, 
At once to answer Thee.' 

Two other pieces on the same subject, by the same author, i Come, 
my soul, and let us dwell/ and ' Borne as an arrow from the bow,' 
are also good. Many of CaswalFs meditative pieces deserve to be 
better known. His Hymn of Reparation to the Holy Sacrament, 
beginning ' O Jesu, O Redeemer/ may be found useful. This idea 
is also well expressed in a hymn by the Rev. T. L. Kingsbury, 
hitherto unpublished : — 

' And art Thou coming, Lord, once more 

To fill this worthless heart of mine, 
To break for me the Eternal Store, 

And shed for me Thy deathless Wine ? 

' What so can move Thee to forsake 

Thy throne above the boundless sky ; 
These lowly forms of earth to take, 
Nor pass the meanest suppliant by ? 

1 Canst Thou forgive my sinful shame, 
My long neglects, my stubborn pride ? 
And canst Thou from Those Eyes of Flame 
My vileness, my pollution hide ? 



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* Yet, Jesus ! all my Peace and Joy ! 

If so Thou must to me incline, 
Come, what Thou hatest to destroy, 
And make me all and only Thine. * 

The following lines of Archbishop Trench, with which we must 
now conclude, remind us forcibly of George Herbert's style of 
thought : — 

* When prayer delights thee least, then learn to say, 
Soul, now is greatest need that thou shouldst pray. 

1 Crooked and warped I am, and I would fain 
Straighten myself by Thy right line again. 

* Oh, come, warm sun, and ripen my late fruits ; 
Pierce, genial showers, down to my parched roots. 

' My well is bitter ; cast therein the Tree, 
That sweet henceforth its brackish waves may be. 

1 Say what is prayer, when it is prayer indeed? 
The mighty utterance of a mighty need. 

* The man is praying who doth press with might 
Out of his darkness into God's Own light. 

' White heat the iron in the furnace won : 
Withdrawn from thence, 'tis cold and hard anon. 

6 Flowers from their stalks divided, presently 
Droop, fail, and wither in the gazer's eye. 

' The largest river, from its fountain-head 
Cut off, leaves soon a parched and dusty bed. 

' All things that live from God their sustenance wait, 
And sun and moon are beggars at His gate. 

i All skirts extended of thy mantle hold, 
When angel-hands from Heaven are scattering gold.' 




X. 

GENERAL HYMNS. —(Continued.) 

It has sometimes been explicitly stated, and much more often taken 
for granted, that hymns cannot be filled with doctrinal statements 
without detracting from their merits as songs of praise. But it is 
rather true, that though any polemic assertion of doctrine is out of 
place in a hymn, yet the hymn from which all distinctive teaching 
has been evaporated must always be weak and unsatisfactory. The 
true doctrinal function of hymns is not unhappily expressed by Dr. 
Bonar in the preface to his first series of hymns : — 

' They are what they are here called, Hymns of Faith and Hope. They belong 
to no church or sect. They are not the expressions of one man's or one party's 
faith and hope ; but are meant to speak what may be thought and spoken by all 
to whom the Church's ancient Faith and Hope are dear. ' 

It is absolutely necessary that hymns, while they avoid such 
details of doctrine and practice as cannot be given without injury to 
their poetic character, should yet clearly set forth Christian Truths 
to be believed, and Christian Graces to be cultivated. The negation 
of what is heretical or false can only be well expressed in the sim- 
plest language. Thus, Toplady's — 

* Not the labour of my hands 
Can fulfil Thy Law's demands,' 

expresses soberly and successfully what the translator of Mowes's 
' Alleluia ! I believe/ 1 in ' Hymns from the Land of Luther/ has 
merely rendered grotesque : — 

' Ice-bound fields of legal labour 
I have left, with all their toil, 
While the fruits of love are growing 
From a new and genial soil. ' 

Dean Alford has worked out the same idea more elaborately, but not 
very felicitously, in a hymn which begins :— 

1 3$ glcwBe, -§aftetuja$ ! 



g6 English Hymnology. 

1 Not in anything we do, 
Thought that's pure or word that's true, 
Saviour, would we put our trust ; 
Frail as vapour, vile as dust, 
All that flatters we disown, 
Righteousness is Thine alone. ' 

The true office of Faith is much better set forth in his earlier hymn, 
' We walk by faith, and not by sight/ the language of which runs 
somewhat parallel to that of J. H. Gurney's, ' We saw Thee not, 
when Thou didst come.' As a supplication for increase of faith, few 
hymns have gained a better deserved popularity than J. Montgomery's 
' In the hour of trial.' It is most unaccountably omitted in several of 
our new hymnals, and it is given in others as anonymous. It is No. 
193, in Montgomery's Original Hymns for Christian Worship, being 
the first of the ' Prayers on Pilgrimage.' The second line, ' Jesus, 
P ra y for me,' has been objected to, as if it ignored the Divinity of our 
Lord ; but surely it only asks Him to do that for us which we know 
that He did for S. Peter, and to make that intercession for us which 
He ever liveth to make for those who come to God by Him. Very 
beautiful are also Dean Milman's lines, ' O help us, Lord, each hour 
of need,' and Anstice's, ' O Lord, how happy should we be.' Thomas 
Haweis, in ' O Thou from whom all goodness flows,' has well shown 
how the 'prayer of faith' may itself be fashioned into a hymn. i\.s a 
profession of faith in our Lord, the hymn, i Behold the Lamb,' l by 
Matthew Bridges, deserves notice. There is a poem on Faith by 
this author, given in Lyra Mystica, of which we take the liberty of 
extracting a few stanzas : — 

* Faith is the dawning of a Day 
Where darkness was before, 
The rising of a solar ray- 
To set in night no more. 

' Faith yields a sense of life and love, 

Upborne on wings of prayer, 
Swift as an eagle or a dove 
That cleaves the liquid air. 



1 Altered in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern ' and elsewhere to ' Behold the Lamb 
of God: 



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i Faith leads me onwards to the Cross, 

And through it to a Crown, 

When purified from all the dross 

That weighs the spirit down. 

4 O Lord, increase this Grace in me, 
That with each fleeting breath 
I more and more may know of Thee, 
And hail the hand of death ! 

' So Faith shall in Fruition end, 

And Grace in Glory cease, 
Where Praise her powers can never spend, 
Nor aught disturb their peace.' 

There is a painful want of dignity in the once favourite hymn of John 
Newton, ' Begone, unbelief, my Saviour is near,' which, added to its 
doubtful orthodoxy, 1 has doubtless caused its recent disuse. ' As 
when the weary traveller gains ' is a much better hymn by the same 
author. The blessings of faith are well set forth in Conder's hymn, 
' Blessed are they whose hearts are pure ;' much less successfully by 
Daniel Turner in ' Faith adds new charms to earthly bliss.' Faith 
raising itself through afflictions could hardly find its expression in 
more suitable words than ' Nearer, my God, to Thee/ which Mrs. 
Adams contributed in 1840 to Fox's ' Hymns and Anthems.' It is 
much to be regretted that the first line of the second stanza, with its 
reference to Jacob, ' Though like the wanderer/ has been so generally 
altered. Godfrey Turing's ' Fierce raged the tempest o'er the deep/ 
and Ryland's ' O Lord, I would delight in Thee/ breathe a some- 
what similar spirit. W. W. How is the author of ' Lord Jesus, 
when we stand afar/ a prayer for faith inspired by the contempla- 
tion of our Lord's Passion, which is also implied in Mrs. Alexander's 
'When wounded sore the stricken heart.' 'O Lord, Thou knowest 
all the snares/ was contributed by Mrs. Toke to the first S. P. C. K. 
Hymnal. ' Thou that art the Father's Word,' by Dean Alford, is 
given as an Epiphany Hymn in 'The Year of Praise/ but without 
any very evident special appropriateness. 

1 See especially v. 4 — 

'Determined to save, He watched o'er my path, 
When, Satan's blind slave, I sported with death.' 

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98 English Hymnology. 



The mutual relationship of the Christian Graces is well described 
in Wordsworth's lines : — 

* Thou hast a temple founded, 

Thy Church, on Thee the Rock : 
By Faith securely grounded, 
She stands the tempest's shock : 

1 Her. stones are all united 
By the cement of Love : 
Her spire of Hope is lighted 
By sunbeams from above.' 

Miss Winkw'orth's ' Faith is a living power from heaven/ from the 
German, 1 of the Bohemian Brethren, and ' I know in whom I put 
my . trust/ from E. M. Arndt, 3 are good as hymns of faith. Her 
hymn, ' Fear not, O little flock, the foe/ is partly from Altenburg's 
translation 3 of Gustavus Adolphus's battle song, 4 partly from an 
anonymous version of the two additional stanzas, which were written 
in 1633 by Dr. Samuel Zelmer. 

So many of the hymns on Hope have special reference to the joys 
and glories of Paradise, a subject which we are reserving for our 
next article, that we have but few to notice here. i O'er the distant 
mountains breaking/ is a beautiful hymn by Dr. Monsell, whose 
' Rest of the weary ' may also be classed as a hymn of Hope. 
Bonar's ' The Church has waited long/ is one of his best hymns, but 
is much improved by the omissions in Dean Alford's version of it, 
given in i The Year of Praise/ ' Ye servants of the Lord/ by Dr. 
Doddridge, and Mrs. Eric Findlater's ' Rejoice, all ye believers,' 5 are 
good as admonitions to Christian Hope and Watchfulness. ' Come, 
Lord Jesus, quickly come,' is by H. G. Tomkins ; ' Come to Thy 
Temple, Lord,' is by Dean Alford. Mrs. Charles's ' Commit thy 
way to God/ and G. Thring's i Dead to life, yet loth to die/ are well 
suited to encourage a patient Hope. F. T. Palgrave's ' Hope of 
those that have none other/ is scarcely equal to its author's usual 

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merit. Miss Borthwick's ' Jesus, still lead on,' 1 is good, and only 
needs a suitable tune for its very peculiar metre to make it a popular 
hymn. The same remark may apply to R. H. Baynes's lines 
beginning : — 

' When across the heart deep waves of sorrow 
Break, as on a dry and barren shore ; 
While Hope glistens with no bright to-morrow, 
And the storm seems sweeping evermore.' 

Toplady's ' When languor and disease invade/ has fifteen stanzas in 
the original \ it was written during an illness. Wesley's ' O Thou, to 
whose all-searching sight/ 2 and Bonar's c O Everlasting Light/ may 
perhaps be fitly mentioned here. 

The hymns on Love fall naturally into two classes : those which 
have Divine Love for their subject, and those which set forth the 
duty of Love to God and man as a Christian Grace. 

Scarcely any translated hymn has been more acceptable to English 
ears than the ' rhythmic song in commemoration of the Lord's 
Passion/ popularly ascribed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 3 In 
Daniel's Thesaurus Hymnologicus reasons are adduced for attributing 
to St. Bernard only eleven stanzas, and even these not with any 
great certainty. Those with which the hymn now commences were 
added, as Daniel believes, by a Cistercian nun in the fourteenth 
century. Later interpolators have extended the hymn to its present 
length ; and some of them, when dividing it into shorter portions for 
insertion in the breviaries, have disregarded its original rules of 
rhyme. Caswall's version, ' Jesu, the very thought of Thee/ is in 
five parts, and is by far the best we possess. From his second part 
is taken, ' Jesu, Thy mercies are untold/ 4 Dr. Neale's ' J esu ! the 
very thought is sweet,' and Copeland's ' Jesu ! how sweet those 

1 From ,3efii, gety' aoratt/ by Ludwig von Zinzendorf. 
2 This hymn l^as been given by Dr. Rogers as translated by John Wesley from 
the German of Gerhard Tersteegen ; but Mr. Kiibler knows no hymn of his to 
which it corresponds, and it is not given at the end of Tersteegen's Memoir among 
the hymns translated by Wesley. 

3 It begins 'Jesu dulcis memoria/ and has forty-eight stanzas. 
4 Amor Jesu dulcissimus. 



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accents are,' deserve mention, though not nearly equal to CaswalFs 
rendering. We have already had occasion to mention i Jesus ! Thou 
Joy of loving hearts/ taken from this poem by Ray Palmer, as an 
Eucharistic Hymn. The following version of the stanzas which form 
part hi. of hymn 157 in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern' 1 may not be 
unacceptable to our readers. It is due to Robert Campbell, Esq., of 
Skerrington. 

' Jesu, highest heaven's Completeness, 

Name of Music to the ear, 
To the lips surpassing sweetness, 
Wine the fainting heart to cheer. 

* Eating Thee, the soul may hunger, 

Drinking, still athirst may be, 
But for earthly food no longer, 
Nor for any stream but Thee. 

* Jesu, all delights exceeding, 

Only Hope of hearts distrest ; 

Weeping eyes, and spirits bleeding, 

Find in Thee a place of rest. 

* Stay, O Beauty uncreated, 

Ever ancient, ever new, 
Banish deeds of darkness hated, 
With Thy sweetness all bedew. 

'Jesu, fairest Blossom, springing 

From a Maiden ever pure, 
May our lips Thy praise be singing, 
While eternal years endure.' 

' O Love ! how deep ! how broad ! how high !' 2 is a translation by 
Dr. Neale of part of a fifteenth century hymn. Dr. Kynaston's 

1 Jesu Decus Angelicum. 
2 'O Amor qusm exsteticus. 5 The original begins with a stanza not translated : 

' Apparuit Benignitas 

Dei, necnon Humanitas, 

Ex Caritate nimia 
• Ad nos atque gratuitaV 



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'jesu, Solace of my Soul,' is translated from Anselm, 1 Bishop of 
Lucca in the eleventh century. W. C. Dix's ' No songs shall break 
our gloom to-day/ and C. G. Rossetti's ' I bore with thee long weary 
days and nights/ are very poetical, but scarcely suited for church 
use. There is a beautiful little poem of unknown date and author- 
ship, 2 to which Dr. Kynaston's version, though reproducing very 
ingeniously the rhymes of the original, scarcely does justice : — 

' Lend, O lend me wings to send me, 
Heavenly Dove, careering soon 
Where the palmy Cross with balmy 
Shadows hides the burning noon.' 

Mr. Campbell's translation, given in the S. Andrew's Hymnal, ' Lend 
Thy Wings, O Holy Dove,' is much better. 

There is a festival introduced into the more recent breviaries which 
gives several hymns on the Saviour's Love, — the Feast of the Heart 
of Jesus. Caswall's ' All ye who seek for sure relief/ 3 and ' To 
Christ the Prince of peace/ 4 are translations of the hymns com- 
posed for this festival in the Roman Breviary. ' Jesus, Thy Love 
unbounded/ is a beautiful hymn, given anonymously in Bosworth's 
Church Hymns. l Jesu, Lover of my Soul/ was written by Charles 
Wesley in 1740, and is certainly one of his best hymns. 5 Since pub- 
lishing the 'Annotated Edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern/ I 
have ascertained that the author of i Jesu, meek and lowly/ is Henry 
Collins. c From highest Heaven the Eternal Son/ was written by 
Sir Henry Baker to suit the tune of the Old 113th Psalm. i My faith 
looks up to Thee,' is a beautiful hymn by Dr. Ray Palmer. Dr. 
Millard's i God Eternal, Lord of all/ and Faber's ' My God, how 
wonderful Thou art !' maybe noticed now, though somewhat differ- 
ing in subject from most of those mentioned above. 

1 Jesu mi dulcissime. 
2 'Ecquis binas columbinas.' — See * Songs of other Churches' in Monthly 
Packet, vol. xi. (New Series), page 429. 

3 Quicumque certum quaeritis. 4 Summi Parentis Filio. 

5 For a strangely severe criticism upon its language, see the preface to Words- 
worth's Holy Year, p. xxxi. 



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On the duty of Love to God's Service, there is scarcely a more 
popular hymn than ' We love the place, O God/ of which the first 
four stanzas given in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern/ are by Dr. Bul- 
lock, and the last three by Sir H. W. Baker. ' Come, we that love 
the Lord/ by Dr. Watts ; ' Songs of praise the Angels sang/ and 
1 Stand up and bless the Lord/ both by J. Montgomery— are exhor- 
tations to the expression of love and thanksgiving. Miss Cox's 
' Good and pleasant 'tis to see/ from Michael Miiller's German, 1 and 
6 O ye, your Saviour's Name who bear/ 2 from Jacob Ritter, are 
excellent exhortations to the spirit of Charity, as is also Alford's 
6 Little children, dwell in love.' As prayers for this grace, we have 
Toplady's ' Jesu, God of Love, attend/ Alford's ' Thou Who on that 
wondrous journey,' C. Wesley's, ' O Thou Who earnest from above,' 
and l Jesus, Lord, we look to Thee/ and J. H. Gurney's ' Lord, as 
to Thy dear Cross we flee.' ' Blest be the dear uniting Love/ is by 
C. Wesley • ' Go up, go up, my heart/ by Dr. H. Bonar. ' Our God 
is Love, and all His Saints/ first appeared in Cotterill's Collection, 
and its authorship is perhaps due to him. ' Fountain of Good, to 
own Thy Love/ is a recast version, probably by Edward Osier, of a 
hymn by Dr. Doddridge, which begins, i Jesus, my Lord, how rich 
Thy Grace !' It is especially applicable to occasions of Almsgiving. 

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XL 

GENERAL HYMNS.— THE HE A VENL Y CO UNTR Y. 

If it be true, that the brightest flame of heathen poetry has been ■ 
kindled from the dim and smouldering conceptions of another world, 
which reached even where God's Revelation was unknown, much 
more may we expect that the most radiant pages of Christian lyrics 
will be those into which is transfused somewhat of the Heavenly 
City's lustre. If some of the sweetest strains ever sung are those in 
which the exile mourns his absence from his loved and distant home, 
we shall not be surprised to see that many of the best hymns have 
the heavenly home-sickness for their key-note, and that there con- 
stantly recurs in them the thought of this life being only a state of 
banishment from Heaven, or at best, of weary pilgrimage thither. 
Sometimes it is suggested by the retrospect of the first earthly para- 
dise, forfeited by Adam's fall ; as in those beautiful, though scarcely 
hymn-like lines, which Dr. Neale has translated from S. Theophanes, 
wherein Adam himself, as the representative of his race, is mourning 
his exclusion from Eden : — 

* O glorious Paradise ! O lovely clime ! 
O GoD-built mansion ! Joy of every saint ! 
Happy remembrance to all coming time ! 
Whisper, with all thy leaves, in cadence faint, 
One prayer to Him who made them all, 
One prayer for Adam in his fall ! — 
That He, Who formed thy gates of yore, 
Would bid those gates unfold once more 
That I had closed by sin : l 



1 It would almost seem that Coffin must have had these lines of S. Theophanes 
before him when he wrote — 

' Adse scelus quas clauserat, 
Reclude ccelestes domos.' 



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And let me taste that holy Tree 
That giveth immortality 

To them that dwell therein ! 
Or have I fallen so far from grace, 
That mercy hath for me no place ? ' 

Sometimes, as in i Thou New Jerusalem, arise and shine/ translated 
by Neale from S. John Damascene's Golden Canon, 1 the hymn- 
writer starts from the contemplation of the Saviour's Resurrection 
Victory, — sometimes, as in S. Romanus the Melodist's beautiful 
hymn, 2 inadequately rendered in W. C. Dix's ' Bethlehem hath 
opened Eden,' from the Incarnation, as the means and source of our 
recall. Our examples have been taken thus far from the hymns of 
the Greek Church, but they might have been as easily found among 
spiritual songs written in English, or German, or Latin. Indeed, but 
for the lack of suitable English verse translations, we might have 
gone still farther from home, and might have quoted the metrical 
homily in which S. Ephraem the Syrian describes Paradise, or the 
Song of the Saints, in the Abyssinian ' Degua.' 3 

Perhaps no hymn has ever attained such marvellous and speedy 
popularity as Dr. Neale's translation from Bernard, a monk of 
Clugny in the twelfth century. The author, born of English parents 
at Morlaix in Bretagne, must not be confounded with his more illus- 
trious namesake, S. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux. The very long 
poem, l De Contemptu Mundi,' from the opening part of which the 
hymn is taken, is a bitter satire on the gross corruptions of the age 
in which Bernard lived. The following are the best-known extracts 
from Neale's translation which have found their way into our 
hymnals : — 6 The world is very evil/ 4 ' Brief life is here our portion.' 5 
' For thee, O dear, dear Country!' 6 and — most widely appreciated 

1 (pajrifrov, (ptori^ov. 2 Tty 'ESeyCt ~Br)d\ee/JL rfvoL^e, devre iddjjbLeu. 

3 See Dr. Burgess's ' Syriac Hymns/ pp. 113-125. Rev. J. M. Rodwell's 
' yEthiopic Prayers, &c./ No. II., p. 94. Some attempts at versification from 
these sources will be found in ' Songs of other Churches, ' now nearly completed in 
The Monthly Packet. 

4 Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus ! 

5 Hie breve vivitur, hie breve plangitur, hie breve fletur. 

6 O bona Patria, lumina sobria te speculantur. 



English Hy 111110 logy. 105 

and adopted of all — 'Jerusalem the Golden. 7 1 Of the eighteen col- 
lections in which I have had time to compare its text, perhaps the 
worst attempts at improvement are made by the following, of which 
a few lines are given as a specimen : — 

'Jerusalem the golden ! 

Fair city of the blest ! 
The hope of pilgrim Christians ! 

The saints' eternal rest ! 
Nor eye hath seen thy glories, 

Nor ever tongue declared, 
What God for them that love Him 
Within thee hath prepared.' 

Supplement to HalVs Collection. 

'Jerusalem the golden, 

Where milk and honey flow, 
Both heart and voice sink fainting 

Beneath thy crystal glow. 
I know not, oh ! I know not 

What joys of home are there, 
What bright unfolding glory, 
What bliss beyond compare.' 2 

S. W. Christophers. 

The fact that even Dr. Neale found it impossible to 'torture our 
language into any distant resemblance of the original rhythm/ might 
have deterred others from attempting it, and, almost as a matter of 
course, failing. But it is difficult to say for what other reason than 
for the sake of such imitation Mrs. Charles has chosen the extra- 
ordinary metre of her version, ' Here brief is the sighing, and brief is 
the crying, for brief is the life/ This line certainly contains the same 
number of syllables as the Latin, but the essentially different position 
of the accented syllables makes them perfectly distinct from each 

1 Urbs Syon aurea, Patria lactea, cive decora. 
2 In the old Salisbury Hymn Book (of the alterations in which Dr, Neale 
specially complains) these two lines are given thus : — 
' What radiance of glory, 

What depth of bliss to share.' 
Mr. Christophers's alterations are the less excusable, because he gives the hymn 
in immediate connection with Dr. Neale's anecdote of the dying child who was 
quieted by hearing it read, as Dr. Neale has translated it. 



ic6 English Hymnology. 



other in rhythm and general effect. Nor does Mr. Moultrie's trans- 
lation succeed much better; it begins : — 

' Fast fall the sands of time, high fills the cup of crime : watch ! For the 

warning 
Light through the gloom is shed, showing to quick and dead the Judgment 
morning. ' 

He means it as a transference of the Latin metre into English, but 
allows himself an entire liberty of c shifting the ictus from the first to 
the second syllable of the dactyl ad libitum? This liberty, exempli- 
fied near the end of the second line given above, would render it 
very difficult, if not impossible, to sing his translation. 

We have already mentioned (p. 47) the hymn on the Heavenly 
City appointed for the Dedication of Chtirches. There are some 
lines by S. Peter Damiani 1 which contain much the same description 
of the New Jerusalem as that given there. Dr. Neale's translation, 
6 For the fount of Life eternal longs the soul with eager thirst/ is 
based on Mr. Wackerbarth's, and is perhaps inferior in beauty to 
Dr. Littledale's ' For the fount of Life eternal is my thirsting spirit 
fain/ From these three versions the cento in 'The People's Hymnal 
is made up. Caswall's translation, of which the first stanza is sub- 
joined, differs slightly in metre from the original :< — 

1 On the fount of Life eternal 

Gazing wistful and athirst ; 
Yearning, straining, from the prison 

Of confining flesh to burst ; 
Here the soul in exile sighs 
For her native Paradise.' 

Four of Dr. Neale's translations from hymns of the fifteenth century, 
given in his ' Hymns on the Joys and Glories of Paradise/ may be 
mentioned : — ' My Father's Home eternal/ 2 ' If there be that skills 
to reckon/ 3 ' Light's Abode, Celestial Salem/ 4 and ' Eye hath never 

1 'Ad perennis vitse fontem mens sitivit arida.' Gerard Moultrie's beautiful 
lines on 'The Gates of Gold,' beginning, ' Thirsts my weary spirit,' seem to have 
been suggested by S. Peter Damiani's poem. See also page 84. 

2 In Domo Patris. 3 Quisquis valet numerare. 

4 Jerusalem luminosa. 



English Hymnology. 107 



seen the glory.' l They are all of unknown authorship ; but the last 
three, which apparently form parts of one poem, probably all proceed 
from the same pen.. Not much more recent than the original of these 
is the English of one of our most familiar hymns, ' Jerusalem, my 
happy home;' or, to give the antique orthography of the original, 
'Hierusalem, my happie Home.' For a complete history of its 
various modifications, its appropriation by David Dickson the Cove- 
nanter, and its discovery among the MSS. of the British Museum, I 
must refer to Dr. Bonar's book on ' The New Jerusalem.' It is pos- 
sible that the lines of S. Peter Damiani, or of Bernard of Morlaix, 
were present to the mind of its writer. The initials F. B. P. are 
attached to it in the British Museum MS., and are supposed to be 
those of Francis Baker {Pater or Presbyter,) a Roman Catholic who 
suffered in the persecution either of Elizabeth or of James I. There 
is a Francis Augustus Baker mentioned in Lowndes's Catalogue as 
the author of some books of Devotions, whom Mr. Sedgwick identi- 
fies with the writer of this hymn. Mr. Miller, in his ' Singers and 
Songs of the Church,' traces the popular form of it in our hymn- 
books to Williams and Boden's Hymnal, 1801, where it is said to be 
taken from the ' Eckington Collection.' It is referred by Mr. Miller 
to ' Urbs beata Hirusalem,' as its Latin original ; but this seems, if not 
wholly wrong, at least only partially right. William Burkitt, Vicar of 
Dedham, published the hymn in 1693 with alterations of his own, 
some of them wantonly destructive to its spirit and meaning. Thus, 
where F. B. P. had written : — 

' Thy gardens and thy gallant walkes 
Continually are greene,' 

Mr. Burkitt substituted l pleasant fruits/ leaving it to his readers to 
reconcile the pleasantness of the fruits with the fact of their con- 
tinually remaining green. 

The best known German hymn on the Heavenly City 2 is by 
Meyfart, or rather is Kosegarten's imitation of it. * Jerusalem, thou 
city fair and high,' Miss Winkworth's translation, 'Jerusalem, thou 

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io8 English Hymnology. 



city towering high/ Miss Cox's rendering, and Dr. Neale's ' Jerusa- 
lem, thou city built on high/ all imitate the metre of the original. 
' Now fain my joyous heart would sing/ is Miss Winkworth's render- 
ing from J. Walther. 1 

The following is a translation from a very beautiful hymn of 
Riickert, 2 by Archbishop Trench : — 

' Oh ! Paradise must show more fair 

Than any earthly ground ; 
And therefore longs my spirit there 

Right quickly to be found. 

6 In Paradise a stream must flow 

Of everlasting Love ; 
Each tear of longing shed below, 
Therein a pearl will prove. 

' And there the tree of stillest peace 
In verdant spaces grows ; 
Beneath it one can never cease 
To dream of blest repose. 

* A cherub at the gate must be, 
Far off the world to fray, 
That its rude noises reach not me, 
To fright my dream away. 

1 All here I sought in vain pursuit 
Will freely meet me there ; 
As from green branches golden fruit, 
Fair flowers from gardens fair. 

' My youth, that by me swept amain, 

On swift wing borne away, 
And love, that suffered me to drain 
Its nectar for a day — 

' These, never wishing to depart, 
Will me for ever bless, 
Their darling fold unto the heart, 
And comfort and caress. 



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1 And there the Loveliness, Whose Glance 
From far on me did gleam ; 
But Whose unveiled Countenance 
Was only seen in dream, 

' Will, meeting all my soul's desires, 

Unveil itself to me, 
When to the choir of starry lyres 
Shall mine united be.' l 

' Heavenward doth our journey tend,' 3 is Miss Winkworth's transla- 
tion from B. Schmolck ; ' Come, Brothers, let us onward, 3 is by Mrs. 
E. Findlater, from Gerhardt Tersteegen. Among her translations of 
hymns on the Heavenly Country, may also be noticed, ' Ah ! this 
heart is void and chill,' 4 and 'O how many hours of beauty,' 5 from 
Spitta. 'What no human eye hath seen,' 6 from Lange; 'Tell me 
not of earthly love,' 7 a hymn of unknown authorship; and 'A pil- 
grim and a stranger,' 8 from Paul Gerhardt, are translated by her 
sister, Miss Borthwick. The last-mentioned translation has some 
beautiful stanzas, but is much disfigured by a vulgar colloquialism : — 

1 There's nothing here that tempts me 
To wish a longer stay.' 

Two other hymns by Gerhardt, 'To God thy way commending,' 9 
and ' Come forth, my heart, and seek delight/ 10 in Miss Cox's transla- 
tion, may be mentioned as examples of the way in which the trials 
and the blessings of this world may suggest and lead up to the 
thought of the better Life. The latter hymn has also been translated 
in Miss Winkworth's ' Go forth, my heart, and seek delight/ 

Sir H. Baker's hymn, ' There is a blessed Home,' sets forth very 
beautifully the joys of that Rest which 'remaineth to the people of 

1 Compare a Spanish hymn, by G. A. de Valeria, in No. xvi. of * Songs of 
Other Churches.' 

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God.' Samuel Crossman's 'Jerusalem on high/ is taken from a 
poem beginning ' Sweet place, sweet place alone/ By the omission 
of the inferior stanzas with which Thomas Gisborne's hymn, 'A 
soldier's course, from battles won/ begins, it might be much im- 
proved. 'A living stream, as crystal clear/ is a recast version, by 
the compilers of the Salisbury Hymn Book, of ' There is a stream, 
which issues forth/ by John Mason. 

The excessive homeliness of John Berridge's 6 O happy saints, who 
dwell in light/ 1 almost precludes its use as a church hymn. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Rowe's ' Hail, sacred Salem, placed on high/ is almost as 
unsuitable through erring on the opposite side. Dr. Stennett's ' On 
Jordan's stormy banks I stand/ expresses less happily the same 
leading idea as Watts's ' There is a land of pure delight.' ' Come, 
let us join our cheerful songs,' also by Dr. Watts, is perhaps the most 
popular among hymns of invitation to the Church on earth to unite 
with the saints in Heaven. 

It would almost seem as if Charles Wesley in ' Come, let us join 
our friends above/ had tried to combine the beauties of both Dr. 
Watts's compositions. Many of Dr. Bonar's hymns descriptive ot 
Paradise would supply excellent material for church use, and some 
might be employed without any omission or alteration. We may 
instance : i This is not my place of resting,' ' These are the crowns 
that we shall wear/ and the concluding stanzas of 'Nay, 'tis not 
what we fancied it.' A hymn might perhaps be made from some 
lines in 6 Brethren, arise.' Josiah Conder's hymn on the Better 
Country, 'Shepherd of Thine Israel, lead us/ 2 is beautiful, as is also 
'Oh! happy land above!' the concluding chorus of a Tragedy on 
the death of Saul, by Dr. Neale's father. The following, by the Rev. 
D. T. K, Drummond, deserves to be better known : — 

' Our glorious home above, 
The City of our God, 



1 Imitated from a hymn in Erskine's ' Gospel Sonnets.' 
2 Founded, perhaps, on ' Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,' a hymn doubt^e-s 
translated from the Welsh of William Williams, whether by himself or by William 
Evans is unknown. 



English Hytnnology. 1 1 1 

The resting-place of peace and Love, 
The pilgrim's sweet abode ! 

' Oh for an angel's wing, 
To soar above the skies, 
And join the angelic choir who sing 
Their hallowed symphonies. 

' Pure mansions of the blest, 
Prepared by Jesu's Hand, 
That all His Own may sweetly rest 
Safe in Emmanuel's Land. 

f May each we love be there, 
From death and darkness free ; 
Our joy unspeakable to share 
Throughout eternity. ' 

Benjamin Rhodes wrote the beautiful hymn beginning 'Jerusalem 
Divine.' Sir Edward Denny's 'Bride of the Lamb, awake ! awake !' 
and ' Children of light, arise and shine/ are good, though the former 
is somewhat tinged by its author's millenarian opinions. Faber's 
hymn, ' My God, how wonderful Thou art/ sets forth the blessedness 
of seeing God in Heaven. The lines on Heaven beginning, ' We 
speak of the realms of the blest/ are by Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, 1829, 
and were written after reading Bridges on Ps. cxix. 44 (' We speak 
of Heaven, but oh ! to be there!'), a short time before the death 
by consumption of the authoress. Dr. Watts's ' Nor eye has seen, 
nor ear has heard/ and ' Lo, what a glorious sight appears/ are both 
good. T. R. Taylor's ' I'm but a stranger here,' has gained con- 
siderable popularity, as has also Anne Steele's 'Far from these 
narrow scenes of night.' ' Oh for the robes of whiteness,' by Miss 
Charitie Lees Smith, has great beauty. Dr. Raffles's hymn, 'High 
in yonder realms of light/ and Thomas Grinneld's, ' Oh, could we 
pilgrims raise our eyes,' cannot be so highly commended. It is 
very strange that ' Lord of earth, Thy forming Hand,' one of Sir 
Robert Grant's best hymns, has been so much neglected. Mrs. 
Tonna's ' Tribulation, pain, and woe/ and Joseph Cottle's ' From 
every earthly pleasure/ contrast the miseries of earth with the 
delights of Heaven. Miss Elliott's ' Oh, how I long to reach my 



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Home,' and J. Montgomery's ' For ever with the Lord/ are beautiful 
aspirations for the Better Country. Thomas Davis's, ' O Paradise 
eternal,' is a mere echo of Dr. Neale's translation from Bernard. 
6 What are these in bright array,' by J. Montgomery, might perhaps 
Lave been more fitly noticed among the hymns for All Saints' Day, 
as might also Rowland Hill's ' Exalted high at God's Right Hand.' 
Miss Mennel's ' We have no home but Heaven,' and R. M. 
Mc Cheyne's * When this passing world is done,' are rather poems than 
hymns. ' We've no abiding city here/ by Thomas Kelly, is scarcely 
so worthy of its author as two other of his hymns, ' Hark ! ten 
thousand harps and voices,' and ' Look, ye saints, the sight is 
glorious.' But it could hardly be expected that the writer of seven 
hundred and sixty-five hymns would be always successful in his 
compositions. There is a long hymn by Thomas Olivers, beginning, 
' The God of Abraham praise,' which ought perhaps to be mentioned 
here. It was adapted by its author to the music of one of the old 
hymns sung by Leoni at the Jews' Synagogue in 1770. The name 
of Leoni has ever since been attached to the tune. Mr. Christo- 
phers says that the words of the hymn are a Christianized translation 
from the ^Hebrew, and that their adaptation to the music was the 
work not of 01ivers ; but of Leoni. This statement, how T ever, seems 
less probable than the account given above. 




XII. 

GENERAL HYMNS— CONCLUSION. 

The limits within which we had intended to keep our remarks have 
been already exceeded, and still the subject-matter of them is far 
from being exhausted. There is one class of hymns somewhat 
connected with those which we dwelt upon in our last article, though 
sufficiently distinct to be considered separately. ' Thy statutes have 
been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage/ wrote the psalmist ; 
yet we have ventured to separate the hymns on the Holy Scrip- 
tures from those which have for their theme the heavenward pil- 
grimage itself. 

The first point we have to notice is the marvellous and lamentable 
dearth of ancient hymns on the Scriptures. This may be partially 
accounted for by taking into consideration that the relationship of 
writers in those times to the books they used was widely different 
from what is commonly the case now. The Bible of those days 
was not a portable and compact volume ; moreover, it was from 
the earliest ages supplemented by a traditional teaching, which, as 
corruption spread, usurped its functions more and more, until MSS. 
of the Word of God took their place, as things unused, but super- 
stitiously venerated, among reliques and images. 1 Men had scarcely 
come to regard God's Revelation as a completed work, before this 
misuse of it began. We may also remember that the ideas of the 
middle ages tended to merge the light of God's revealed Word in 
the glory of the Incarnate Word. It is less easy to explain the fact 
that Germany contributes comparatively few originals of hymns on 
the Scriptures which have become well known in an English trans- 
lation. Miss Winkworth's rendering of a hymn of unknown author- 

1 Nor had they the highest place, as may be seen from the well-known instance 
of Harold's oath to William of Normandy, when the latter had procured reliques, 
and concealed them beneath the altar to add to the solemnity of the obligation. 

I 



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ship, 1 beginning, ' Thy Word, O Lord, like gentle dews/ deserves 
mention. There is a beautiful hymn by Spitta/ which I am con- 
scious that the following translation very imperfectly represents : — 

Word of Life, thou fountain bright, 
Flowing forth from Heaven's height, 
Sprinkling powers of life on those 
Who to thee their hearts disclose, 
Who, like flowers that fade away 
In the bright sun's parching ray, 
From the dry and barren waste 
Thirsting, stoop thy spring to taste. 

Earth, without thy light, appears 
But a gloomy vale of tears : — 
Heaven's best joys without thy key 
Barred from all mankind would be : — ■ 
Life without thy quickening breath 
But the shadow seems of death : — 
Death without thy cheering beams, 
Night without a morning seems. 

Word of Life ! Not light alone, 
Warmth by thee is on us thrown ; 
Thou dost show the depths of hell, 
And of God's own Kingdom tell : 
Chasing sloth and sleep, thy call 
Doth the sinner's soul appal ; 
Yet, when hapless footsteps slide, 
Thou in love the fall wouldst hide. 

From thy page we learn to fear 
Justice from a Judge severe, 
Yet therein a Father find, 
Strong and patient, good and kind, — 
God, Who, for our sin to atone, 
Gives His dear, His Only Son 
Guilt upon Himself to take, 
Loves the sinner for His sake. 

Word of Life, Salvation free 
Offering him who heareth thee, 
Only he who keeps thee fast, 
Shall thy treasure share at last. 

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English Hymnology. \ 1 5 



May I keep thee, then, thou Sword 
Of the Spirit, God's Own Word ! 
Help me here on earth to strive, 
Crowned through thee in Heaven to live. 

Anne Steele's hymn, beginning, ' Father of mercies, in Thy Word, 
is well known, as is also Benjamin Beddome's ' God, in the Gospel 
of His Son.' ' Holy Bible, Book Divine/ is by John Barton, 1799. 
' How precious is the Book Divine/ by Dr. John Fawcett, was 
first published in 1782, in a collection of original hymns which their 
author intended as a supplement to Dr. Watts's • Psalms and Hymns.' 
c The Spirit breathes upon the Word,' is by William Cowper. ' I 
love the Sacred Book of God ' is due to Thomas Kelly. One of 
our best hymns on the Bible is 'Lamp of our feet, whereby we 
trace/ written by the Quaker poet, Bernard Barton. ' Pour down 
Thy Spirit, gracious Lord/ is a prayer for a blessing on God's Word, 
by John Newton. Dr. W T atts's ' My dear Redeemer and my Lord,' 
is somewhat weak in rhyme, and wants clearness of idea. It con- 
trasts the Word of God with the life of our Lord on earth, as if 
the record of the latter were not an integral part of the former. A 
much more satisfactory hymn, by the same author, begins, ' Great 
God, with wonder and with praise,' and compares very successfully 
the lessons taught by Nature and by Inspiration. In his hymn, 
' Let every mortal ear attend/ the language is too vehement, and 
the rhythm too much neglected; yet even this is a better hymn' 
than the miserably prosaic lines beginning, ' The Law commands 
and makes us know/ in which he attempts to set forth the difference 
between the Law and the Gospel. The hymn on the Word of 
God, ' The table of my heart prepare/ by Charles Wesley, is rather 
adapted for the private use of the ministry, than for singing in 
Church. In the Wesleyan hymn-books, the first two stanzas are 
omitted, and it begins, ' When quiet in my house I sit.' ' Inspire] 
of the ancient seers,' is more suitable for public use, but is not quite 
equal to its author's average excellence. ' Precious Bible ! what a 
treasure V by John Newton, cannot be very highly commended. 
Of James Montgomery's hymns on the Word of God, the following 



n6 English Hymnology. 

is perhaps the best, in spite of the weak stanza with which it 
begins : — 

' The Word of God, the Word of truth, 
Instruct our childhood, guide our youth, 
Uphold us through life's middle stage, 
And be our comfort in old age ! 

' 'Twas by that Word the heavens were made, 
By it the earth's foundations laid ; 
All things that are on it depend, 
Their source and stay, their rule and end. 

' By it Jehovah gave His Law, 
Midst sights of terror, sounds of awe ; 
By it the holy men of old 
A better covenant foretold. 

' Christ Jesus came, Himself " The Word," 
His Voice the powers of nature heard, 
In servant's form they knew His Call, 
The Son of God, the Lord of all. 

* The Word of Mercy which He brought, 
The Word of Wisdom which He taught, 
His Word of Grace, so full, so free, 
Our hope, our joy, our portion be. 

' That word, if early doomed to death, 
Revive us at our latest breath, 
And when our souls in judgment stand, 
Decree our place at God's Right Hand ! ' 

' Words of eternal life to me/ 'Thy Word, Almighty Lord,' and 
c Behold the Book whose leaves display/ are other hymns by the 
same author upon the Word of God. ' Lord, Thy Word abideth/ 
is by Sir H. W. Baker. 'His light my guide ! His Law my rule V 
and 6 The broken contrite heart oppressed/ are by Dr. Monsell. 

I have omitted to mention in its place, ' O what the joy and the 
glory must be/ a hymn slightly altered by the compilers of ' Hymns 
Ancient and Modern/ from Dr. Neale's translation of a mediaeval 
hymn for Saturday — 

' O quanta qualia sunt ilia sabbata. ' 



English Hymnoiogy. \ \ 7 



The following have also been accidentally passed over without 
notice. Dr. Neale's ' Art thou weary, art thou languid?' although 
given by him as a translation from S. Stephen the Sabaite, 1 is really 
an original hymn. The same remark may apply to his hymn, 
' O happy band of pilgrims,' to which S. Joseph of the Studium has 
really contributed scarcely a single idea. ' Come, ye faithful, raise 
the anthem ' was given by Dr. Neale in the Christian Remembrancer 
as a recast version of a hymn by Job Hupton. ' Be Thou my 
Guardian and my Guide ' was written by Isaac Williams. ' Christian, 
seek not yet repose ' is by Miss Charlotte Elliott, written (as are many 
of her hymns) in a form of metre otherwise rare — three long lines 
followed by a much shorter one forming the stanza. Matthew 
Bridges wrote i Crown Him with many crowns/ Dr. Newman wrote 
'Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom/ in 1833 during 
a voyage on the Mediterranean. ' Praise to the Holiest in the 
height' is also his, being taken from the 'Dream of Gerontius/ 
*I need Thee, precious Jesus' first appeared in the Rev. F. Whit- 
field's 'Sacred Poems and Prose/ 'Jesus, Lord of life and glory' 
is by J. Cummins. Mrs. Alderson contributed 'Lord of glory, Who 
hast bought us ' to the Appendix to ' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' 
where also the Rev. J. Ellerton's translation 'Sing Alleluia forth in 
duteous praise ' was first published. The original, 2 found in the 
Mozarabic Breviary, is by Mone attributed to the fifth century. 
' Lord of our life and God of our Salvation ' is said to be taken from 
an eighth-century Latin Hymn ; but I have not been able to discover 
the original. It was one of several leaflets contributed by Philip 
Pusey, Algernon Herbert, and others, to the first Salisbury Hymn 
Book. 'O Jesu, Thou art standing,' and 'We give Thee but Thine 
own ' are by W. W. How. Lyte's ' Pleasant are Thy courts above/ 
and Miss Auber's 'O praise our great and gracious Lord' are founded 
respectively on Psalms lxxxiv. and cv. The omission of two stanzas 
in Bishop Wordsworth's 'O Lord of heaven and earth and sea,' as 
given in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' provoked considerable dis- 

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n8 English Hymnology. 

pleasure from the author. Sir H. Baker wrote for the Appendix ' The 
King of Love my Shepherd is/ founded on Psalm xxiii. Faber's 
1 O Paradise, O Paradise ' has a curious tinge of Calvinism in its 
sixth stanza — 

1 ' I greatly long to see 
The special place my dearest Lord 
Is destining for me ! " 

C. Wesley's ' Rejoice, the Lord is King/ and l Shepherd Divine, our 
wants relieve ' are well-known and popular hymns, as is also Cowper's 
' What various hindrances we meet/ ' Sing praise to God, Who 
reigns above ' is Miss Cox's translation from J. J. Schiitz. 1 Godfrey 
Thring wrote ' Saviour, Blessed Saviour/ Thomas Kelly is the 
author of ' The Head that once was crowned with thorns/ ' The 
Church's one Foundation ' is from the Rev. S. J. Stone's i Lyra 
Fidelium/ ' Thine Arm, O Lord, in days of old/ by the Rev.E. H. 
Plumptre, is suitable for use when a Hospital claims the Offertory. 
' Thine for ever, God of Love ' was contributed to the first S. P. C. K. 
hymn book, by Mary Fawler Maude. The Rev. W. Bright's hymn, 
' We know Thee Who Thou art/ is a good hymn in spite of the 
somewhat incongruous associations inseparable from its first line. 

If some parts of these papers seem to be little more than a mere 
catalogue of lines and names, I must remind my readers that without 
an enormous extension of space it was impossible to make them 
otherwise. I have carefully avoided reprinting hymns here to which 
most of those who are interested in hymnology would certainly have 
ready access. And, on the other hand, I have usually refrained 
from giving such biographical details as have already been published 
by Josiah Miller in his ' Singers and Songs of the Church/ or by 
Dr. Rogers in his "Lyra Br it annual One concluding remark I 
must make on what seems to me a chief source of strength in our 
recent English Hymnology. It represents the union of many dif- 
ferent elements, not merely old and new, foreign and native, heaped 
together, but, what is much more to the purpose, hymns suited alike 

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to every class of society, every order of intellectual ability. This 
could not have come as the growth of a single age, or as the product 
of one single movement of religious feeling, or Church reform. But 
just as the Wesleys united in some degree the various merits of Ken, 
Addison, and Watts, so on a larger scale the hymns of Keble, Neale, 
Caswall, Sir H. Baker, I. Williams, Mrs. Alexander, Bonar, Faber, 
Dix, and a score of others, have united the merits of nearly all their 
predecessors. Simple, but not meagre ; plain, but not childish \ 
true, but not common-place \ exalted, but not stilted : such are the 
hymns of which our precious store is day by day increasing, and if 
some other contributions be in comparison worthless and poor, yet 
surely there is enough to excite our thankfulness, enough to awaken 
our earnest prayer, that He Who has been pleased to bestow upon 
us these treasures may give us grace always to use them to His 
honour and glory. 




INDEX TO FIRST LINES, 



ENGLISH. 



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Abide among us with Thy Grace . 8 
Abide with me ; fast falls the eventide 
Above the starry spheres . . . 
According to Thy gracious Word 
A few more years shall roll . . 12 
Again the circling seasons tell . . , 
Again the Lord's Own Day is here , 
Ah ! this heart is void and chill 
A hymn for martyrs sweetly sing 
A hymn of glory let us sing 
A living stream, as crystal clear 
All Creation groans and travails 
Alleluia, Alleluia ! Finished is 

battle now 

Alleluia, Alleluia ! Hearts to Heaven 

and voices raise .... 
Alleluia, Alleluia ! The battle now is 

done 

Alleluia ! I believe 

Alleluia ! Praise the Lord . . 
Alleluia, sing to Jesus . . . 
Alleluia ! Song of sweetness 
All glory, laud, and honour. . 
All hail ! Adored Trinity . . 
All hail, Redeemer of mankind 
All hail the power of Jestj's name 
All is bright and cheerful round us 

38 
All people that on earth do dwell 
All praise to Thee, my God, this 

night 

All ye Gentile lands, awake . . 
All ye who seek for sure relief . . 
Almighty God, Thy Word is cast 
Almighty God, Whose only Son 
Almighty Lord, before Thy Throne 
Although the vine its fruit deny 
And art Thou coming, Lord, once 

more 

And now, my soul, canst thou forget 
And now the wants are told, that 

brought 7 

And wilt Thou pardon Lord . . . 21 

An exile for the faith 15 

Angels from the realms of glory . . 12 
Angels, from your blissful station . 12 
Angels, lament ; behold your God . 26 



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Angels of peace, look down from 

heaven and mourn 26 

Anointed One ! Thy work is done . 34 

A pilgrim and a stranger .... 109 

Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat . 90 

Arise, my soul, my joyful powers. . 89 

Arise, the kingdom is at hand . . n 

Arm of the Lord ! awake, awake . 59 

Around the throne in circling band . 42 

Around Thy grave, Lord Jesus . . 55 
Art thou weary, art thou languid . .117 

As now the sun's declining rays . . 6 

A soldier's course, from battles won no 

As panting in the sultry beam ... 72 

As pants the hart for cooling streams 72 
As pants the wearied hart for cooling 

springs 72 

As the sun doth daily rise .... 6 

As when the weary traveller gains . 97 

As with gladness men of old ... 17 

At even, ere the sun was set . . . 6 

At the Cross, her station keeping. . 25 

At the Lamb's high feast we sing. . 30 

At Thy Transfiguration, Lord . . 41 

A type of those bright rays on high . 41 

Author of lost man's Salvation. . . 35 

Awake, my soul, and with the sun . 2 

Awake, O man, and from thee shake 21 

Away with sorrow's sigh . . . . 13 

Before Jehovah's awful Throne . . 74 

Before the ending of the day ... 6 
Begone, unbelief, my Saviour is 

near 97 

Behold and see Christ's chosen 

Saint 43 

! Behold an Israelite indeed .... 41 
I Behold me unprotected stand . . . jj 
I Behold the accepted time appear . . 21 
Behold the Book, whose leaves dis- 
play 116 

Behold the glories of the Lamb . . 42 

Behold the Lamb 96 

Behold the Lamb of God .... 96 

Behold the messengers of Christ . 46 

Behold the morning sun .... 3 

Behold us, Lord, before Thee met . 55 



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Be present, ye faithful . . 
Bethlehem hath opened Eden 
Be Thou my Guardian and my Guide 
Beyond the star-lit sky . . 
Bishop of the souls of men 
Blessed are they whose hearts are pure 
Blessed City, heavenly Salem . 
Blessed Father ! Great Creator 
Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs 
Blessed Jesus, here we stand . 
Blessed Saviour, Who hast taught 

me 

Blest are the pure in heart . 
Blest be, O Lord, the Grace of Love 
Blest be the dear uniting Love 
Blest Creator of the Light . . . 
Blest Trinity, from mortal sight 
Blest, who, far from all mankind 
Borne as an arrow from the bow . 
Bread of Heaven, on Thee I feed 
Bread of the world, in mercy broken 

Brethren, arise 

Bride of the Lamb, awake ! awake 
Brief life is here our portion . . 
Brightest and best of the sons of the 

morning 

Brightly gleams our banner 

[Bright Queen of Saints ! God's Virgin 

Spouse 

Bright the vision that delighted . . 
Bright was the guiding star that led 
Brother, now thy toils are o'er 
Brother, thou art gone before us 
Buried in heathen darkness lay 
By precepts taught of ages past 
By the Cross, sad vigil keeping 

Captains of the saintly band . 
Cease, my soul, thy strayings . 
Cease, ye tearful mourners 
Cephas and Peter, — heaven-taug 

name . 

Child, amidst the flowers at play 
Children of light,, arise and shine 
Children of men, rejoice and sing 
Children of the Heavenly King , 
Christian child, awake ! arise ! 
Christian children, hear me . , 
Christian, dost thou see them . . 
Christians, awake ! salute the happy 

morn 

Christian, seek not yet repose . 
Christ is gone up : yet ere He passed 
Christ is our Corner-stone 
Christ is risen ! Alleluia . 
Christ, of the holy angels light and 

gladness 

Christ's everlasting messengers . 
Christ sits at His Own Board . 



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Christ the Lord is risen again . . 32 
Christ the Lord is risen to-day, — 

Christians 32 

Christ the Lord is risen to-day, — 

Sons of men 33 



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Christ, we turn our eyes to Thee 
Christ, Whose glory fills the skies . 
Christ will gather in His Own . . 
Come and behold the works of God 
Come, Brethren, let us go . . . . 
Come, Brothers, let us onward . 
Come Father, Son, and Holy 

Ghost 55 

Come forth, my heart, and seek delight 109 
Come Gracious Spirit, Heavenly 

Dove 37 

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest 

36, 
Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God . 
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire* 

36, 
Come, Holy Ghost, Who ever One 
Come, Holy Spirit, Come . . . 
Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, 

My sinful 37 

Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, 

With all 37 

Come, let us join our cheerful songs 

42, no 
Come, let us join our friends above 

45. 57» no 
Come, let us praise the Name of God 8 
Come, Lord, and tarry not . . 
Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come 
Come, my soul, and let us dwell . 
Come, O come ! in pious lays . . 
Come, O Jesu, to Thy Table . . 
Come, pure hearts, in sweetest mea- 
sures 
Come, see the place where Jesus lay 
Come sing with holy gladness 
Come, Thou Holy Paraclete . 
Come, Thou Holy Spirit, come 
Come to Thy Temple, Lord . . 
Come unto Me, ye weary . . . 
Come, we that love the Lord . . 
Come ye faithful, raise the anthem 
Come ye faithful, raise the strain 
Come, ye saints, look here and wonder 
Come, ye thankful people, come . 
Come, ye that love the Lord 
Commit thy way to God . . . 
Conquering kings their titles take . 16 
Correct us, Lord, we know it good 71 
Creator of the rolling flood ... 40 
Creator of the starry height ... 11 
Creator of the world, to Thee . . ' 19 
Creator Spirit ! by Whose aid . . 36 
Crowned with immortal jubilee . . 39 



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Crown Him with many crowns 



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Day of anger, that dread Day . . 9 

[Day of wrath ! O day of mourning . 9] 

Day of wrath, that awful Day . . 9 

Days and moments quickly flying . 56 

Dead to life, yet loth to die ... 98 

Deathless principle, arise . . 57, 90 

Deign this union to approve ... 56 
Depart, my child ! the Lord thy spirit 

calls 68 

Disposer Supreme 45 

Draw near, O Son of God, draw near 58 

Draw near, thou lowly Christian . 27 

Draw nigh, all ye faithful .... 13 
Draw nigh, and take the Body of the 

Lord 51 

Dread Jehovah, God of nations . 69 

Dread Sovereign, let my evening song 89 



Earth has many a noble city . . 
Ere the waning light decay . . 
Eternal Father ! strong to save 
Eternal Monarch, King most high 
Eternal Source of every joy . . 
Exalted high at God's Right Hand 
Eye hath never seen the glory . 



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34 

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112 

106 



Fain would my thoughts fly up to 

Thee 88 

Fair art Thou, bright and fair . . 72 
Faith adds new charms to earthly bliss 97 
Faith is a living power from heaven 98 
Faith is the dawning of a day . . 96 
Fall down, ye nations, and adore . 59 
Far and near, Almighty Word . . 59 
Far from my heavenly home ... 77 
Far from these narrow scenes of night in 
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee . 90 
Far from Zion, far from home . . jj 
Fast fall the sands of time .... 106 
Father, by Thy Love and Power . 6 
Father, I know that all my life . . 92 
Father, I my robes would keep . 64 
Father, in the Name I pray . . 90 
Father of Heaven, Whose love pro- 
found 38 

Father of mercies, hear .... 21 

Father of mercies, in Thy Word . 115 

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost . 55 

Fear not, O little flock, the foe . . 98 

Fierce raged the tempest o'er the deep 97 

First of martyrs, thou whose name . 14 

Fling out the banner ! let it float . . 59 

For all Thy saints, O Lord ... 44 
For all Thy saints, who from their 

labours rest 45 

For ever with the Lord 112 

For man the Saviour shed .... 46 



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For thee, O dear, dear Country . . 104 
For Thee, O God, our constant 

praise (n.v.) 72 

For the fount of Life eternal is my 

thirsting spirit fain 106 

For the fount of Life eternal longs the 

soul with eager thirst 106 

Forth in Thy Name, O Lord, I go . 3 

For Thy dear saint, O Lord (Mant) 44 

For Thy Mercy and Thy Grace . . 16 

Forty days and forty nights ... 23 

Fountain of Good, to own Thy Love 102 

Fountain of Mercy, God of Love . 70 
Four Rivers from one holy Fount 

arise 42 

From all Thy saints in warfare . . 45 
From every earthly pleasure . . .111 

From Greenland's icy mountains . . 59 

From hidden source arising ... 46 
From ' highest Heaven the Eternal 

Son. 101 

From Sion's hill my help descends . 76 

Full of .Mercy, full of Love . ... 88 



'Gainst what foemen art thou rushing 
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild . 
Gentlest lamb of Jesu's fold . 
Gently, gently lay Thy rod . . 
Give us Thy blessed peace, God of 

all Might 

Glad sight ! The holy Church . . 
Glorious things of thee are spoken 
Glory and laud and honour . . 

Glory be to Jesus 

Glory to Thee, my God, this night 
Glory to Thee, O 'Lord .... 
Glory to the Father give . . . 
God' Eternal, Lord of all . . . 
God from on high hath heard . 
God has a family on earth . . . 
God, in the Gospel of His Son . 
God is gone up with a merry noise 
God is my strong Salvation . . 
God is so good that He will hear 
God moves in a mvsterious way . 
God of Grace, O let Thy light . 
God of Mercy, God of Grace . 
God of my life, to Thee I call . . 
God of my life, what just return . 
God the Father, from Thy Throne 
God the Father, Whose Creation . 
God the Lord has heard our prayer 
God, Who madest earth and heaven 
Go forth, my heart, and seek delight 109 
Good and pleasant 'tis to see . . . 102 

Go to dark Gethsemane 27 

Go up, go up, my heart 102 

Gracious Saviour, gentle Shepherd. 68 
Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost . 20, 37 



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Greatest of prophets, messenger ap- 
pointed 40 

Great God ! What do I see and hear ! 11 

Great God, Who hid from mortal 
sight 7 

Great God, with wonder and with 
praise 115 

Great is the Lord our God . . .72 

Great King of nations, hear our 
prayer 69 

Great Mover of all hearts, Whose 
Hand 8, 20 

Great Shepherd of Thy ransomed 
flock 53 

Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah . no 

Hail ! Day of days, in peals of praise 32 
Hail ! Fle"sh of Christ the Regal . 51 

Hail, gladdening Light 7 

Hail, gracious Source of every good 72 
Hail, martyr sweets deflowered . . 15 
Hail, sacred Salem, placed on high . no 
Hail the day that sees Him rise . . 35 
Hail to the Lord's Anointed ... 16 
Happy soul, thy days are ended . 57, 90 
Hark ! a thrilling voice is sounding . n 
Hark ! hark ! my soul, angelic songs 

are swelling 92 

Hark ! how all the welkin rings . . 12 
Hark, my soul, how every thing . . 88 
Hark, my soul ! it is the Lord . . 90 
Hark ! ten thousand harps and voices 112 
Hark ! the glad sound ! the Saviour 

comes n, 44 

Hark ! the herald angels sing . 12, 30 
Hark, the song of Jubilee .... 60 
Hark, the sound of holy voices . . 44 
Hark ! the Voice of Love and Mercy 27 
Hark ! what mean yon holy voices . 12 
Have mercy, Lord, on me. ... 23 
Hear what God the Lord hath spo- 
ken 81 

Heavenly Father, send Thy blessing 68 
Heavenward doth our journey tend . 109 
He cometh, — on yon hallowed Board 52 

He is risen, He is risen 33 

Here brief is the sighing, and brief is 

the crying, etc 105 

Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face 

to face 52 

Here we suffer grief and pain ... 68 
He's gone ; see where His Body lay . 34 
He Who once in righteous vengeance 26 
Hierusalem, my happy Home . . . 107 
High in yonder realms of light . .111 
High let us swell our tuneful notes . 14 
His Light my Guide ! His Law my 

Rule! 116 

His trial o'er, and now beneath . . 27 



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Holiest, breathe an evening blessing . 6 
Holy Bible, Book Divine . . . .115 
Holy Ghost, dispel our sadness . . 37 
Holy Ghost, Illuminator .... 36 
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord .... 38 
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Al- 
mighty 38 

Holy Spirit, in my breast ... 20 

Hope of our hearts ! O Lord, appear 12 

Hope of those that have none other . 98 

Hosanna to the living Lord ... 24 

How amiable, how fair 73 

How are Thy servants blest, O Lord 75 
How beauteous are their feet 46, 60$, 80 

How beautiful the sight 76 

How blessed is the force of prayer . 40 
How blest are hearts which Christ 

the Lord 56 

How blest the matron, who endued . 47 
How blest were they who walked in 

love. 20 

How brief the story of man's first 

estate 20 

How bright those glorious spirits 

shine 44 

How dreadful is this place ! God's 

House * ... 42 

How glorious is our Heavenly King. 65 

How honoured, how dear .... 73 

How lovely are Thy dwellings fair . 73 

How lovely is Thy dwelling-place . 73 

How mean ye thus by weeping . . 91 

How precious is the Book Divine. . 115 

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds 90 

How welcome was the call .... 56 

Hues of the rich unfolding morn . . 3 

Humbly I adore Thee, hidden Deity 50 

Humbly now, with deep contrition . 23 

I am baptized into Thy Name. . . 55 
I bore with thee long weary days and 

nights 101 

I come to Thee once more, my God. 92 

If there be any special thing ... 22 

If there be that skills to reckon . . 106 

I heard the Voice of Jesus say . . 59 

I hear the tempest's awful sound . . 90 

I know in Whom I put my trust . . 98 

I lay my sins on Jesus 59 

I love the little snowdrop flower . . 63 
I love the sacred Book of God. . .115 

In days of old on Sinai 41 

I need Thee, precious Jesus . . .117 

In garments dight of virgin white . 30 

In grief and fear to Thee, O Lord . 69 

In solemn course, as holy lore . . . 21 

In sorrow and distress 23 

Inspirer and Hearer of prayer ... 42 
Inspirer of the ancient seers . . .115 



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In the bonds of Death He lay . . 

In the hour of trial 

In the Lord's atoning Grief . . 
In the midst of life behold . . . 
In the Name of God the Father 
In the sun and moon and stars . 
In the wilderness prepare ye, etc. 
In thraldom's lonely woe . . . 
In Thy glorious Resurrection . 
In time of Tribulation .... 
In token that thou shalt not fear . 
In vain my fancy strives to paint . 
It came upon the midnight clear . 
I thank the goodness and the grace 
I think, when I read that sweet story 

of old 

I was a wandering sheep . . 

I was wandering and weary 

I worship Thee, Lord Jesu . , 

Jehovah, let me know mine end 

Jerusalem Divine 

Jerusalem, my happy home 

Jerusalem on high 

Jerusalem the golden .... 
Jerusalem, thou city built on high 
Jerusalem, thou city fair and high 
Jerusalem, thou city towering high 
Jesu, for the beacon-light . . . 
Jesu, gentlest Saviour .... 
Jesu, God of Love, attend. . . 
Jesu, grant me this, I pray. . . 
Jesu, highest heaven's Completene. 
Jesu ! how sweet those accents are 
Jesu, Lord, Thy praise we sing 
Jesu, Lord, Thy servants see 
Jesu, Lover of my soul . 
Jesu, meek and gentle . 
Jesu, meek and lowly . 
Jesu, most loving One . 
Jesu ! my Lord, my God, my 
Jesu ! now Thy new-made soldier 
Jesu, Redeemer, from on high . 
Jesus calls us o'er the tumult . . 
Jesus Christ is risen to-day ! Alleluia 
Jesus, I my cross have taken . 
Jesus is God : — the solid earth 
Jesus lives ! — No longer now . 
Jesus, Lord of Life and glory 
Jesus, Lord of Life Eternal '. 
Jesus, Lord, we look to Thee 
Jesus, my Lord, how rich Thy Grace 
Jesus my Redeemer lives . . 
Jesus ! X ame of wondrous Love 
Jesu, Solace of my soul . 
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun 59 
Jesus, still lead on ... . 
Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear m 
Jesus, Thou Joy of loving hearts 51, 



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Jesus, Thy Love unbounded . . .101 

Jesus, Whom Thy Church doth own 51 

Jesu ! the very thought is sweet . . 99 

Jesu, the very thought of Thee . . 99 

Jesu, the Virgins' Crown, do Thou . 47 

Jesu, the world's redeeming Lord . 32 

Jesu, Thou art my Righteousness . 90 

Jesu, Thy boundless love to me . . 90 

Jesu, Thy mercies are untold ... 99 

Jesu, to Thy Table led 53 

Joy to the world ; the Lord is come . 73 

Judaea's desert heard a sound ... 40 

Just as I am, without one plea. . . 91 

King Eternal, Power unbounded . . 34 

King of Comforts, King of Life . . 86 

King of Glory, King of Peace. . . 85 

King of Mercy, King of Love. . . 88 

Lamb of God, Whose bleeding Love 52 
Lamb of God, Whose dying Love . 52 
Lamp of our feet, whereby we trace . 115 
Laud, O Sion, thy Salvation ... 50 
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encir- 
cling gloom 117 

Lend, O lend me wings to send me . 10 1 

Lend Thy Wings, O Holy Doa'E . 101 

Let all mortal flesh keep silence . . 51 
Let children, Lord, Thy Presence 

seek 66 

Let every heart exulting beat ... 16 
Let every mortal ear attend . . .115 

Let others court what joy they please 88 
Let our choir new anthems raise 

44. 46 
Let saints on earth in concert sing 

45. 57 
Let this our solemn Feast .... 50 
Let us rise in early morning ... 29 
Let us with a gladsome mind . , . 77 
Light of the world ! O shine on us . 59 
Light's Abode, Celestial Salem . . 106 
Light's glittering morn bedecks the 

sky 29 

Little children, dwell in love . . . 102 
Lo ! crowds of mourners press . . 17 
Lo, from the desert homes .... 39 
Lo ! He comes with clouds descend- 
ing 10 

Long did I toil, and knew no earthly 

rest 91 

Lo, now is our accepted day ... 21 
Look down, O Lord ! and on our 

youth 55 

Look in pity, Lord of Glory ... 55 

Look, ye saints, the sight is glorious 112 

Lord, a. Saviour's love displaying . 59 

Lord, as to Thy dear Cross we flee 102 

Lord, before Thy Throne we bend 76 



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Lord, for ever at Thy side . . . 76 

Lord, how delightful 'tis to see . . 65 

Lord, I confess before Thy Face . 65 

Lord, in the desert bleak and bare . 23 

Lord, in this Thy mercy's Day . . 22 
Lord, in Thy Name Thy servants 

plead 34 

Lord Jesus, God and Man ... 68 

Lord Jesus, when we stand afar . 97 

Lord of earth's wide realms, alone . 71 

Lord of earth, Thy forming Hand . 111 

Lord of glory, Who hast bought us 117 

Lord of mercy and of might ... 22 
Lord of our life and God of our 

salvation 117 

Lord of the Harvest, once again . 70 

Lord of the Harvest, Thee we hail 70 

Lord of the worlds above . . . 73 
Lord, pour Thy Spirit from on 

high 58 

Lord, Thy children guide and keep 67 
Lord, Thy Word abideth . . . .116 
Lord, when before Thy Throne we 

meet 53 

Lord, when we bend before Thy 

Throne 22 

Lo, round the throne, a glorious 

band 44 

Lo ! the Angels' food is given ... 50 

Lo, the Feast is spread to-day . . 53 

Lo ! the glad morn is come . 33 

Lo the lilies of the field 81 

Love is the Lord whom I obey . . 90 

Love, Who in the first beginning . 92 

Lo, what a glorious sight appears . in 

Master (will we ever say) . . . . 35 

Memory of the blest departed . . 38 

Mighty Father ! Blessed Son . . 38 

Mine anguish and my woe .... 76 

Morn of morns and Day of days . . 4 

Most ancient of all mysteries ... 38 

Most High and Holy Trinity . . 38 

Much in sorrow, oft in woe ... 48 

My dear Redeemer and my Lord . 115 

My faith looks up to Thee .... 101 
My Father's Home eternal . . .106 

My God, accept my heart this day . 55 

My God and Father, while I stray 91 

My God, and is Thy Table spread . 51 

My God, how endless is Thy Love . 3 
My God, how wonderful Thou art 

101, in 

My God, I love Thee ; — not because 26 
My God, in W r hom are all the 

springs 72 

My God, I thank Thee, Who -hast 

made 92 

My God, my Father, while I stray 91 



PAGE 

My God, my King ...... 75 

My God, to Thee ourselves we owe . 88 
[My joy, my life, my crown (Herbert), 

— quoted} 85 

My Lord and God, Whose gracious 

Hand 91 

My Saviour and my King ... 72 
My soul, praise the Lord (Cams 

Wilson) 75 

My soul, praise the Lord (O. V.) . 74 

My soul, praise the Lord (Churton) 75 
Mv soul, praise the Lord (Thomas 

Park) 78 

My Soul, there is a Countrie ... 88 

My spirit on Thy care 72 

My thirsty soule desires her drought 84 

Nay, 'tis not what we fancied it . .110 
Nearer, my God, to Thee .... 97 
New every morning is the love . . 3 
New wonders of Thy mighty Hand . 8 
Night ! how I love thy silent shades 90 
No Gospel like this feast .... 53 
No longer Thou in human form ■ . 27 
Nor eye has seen, nor ear has heard in 
No songs shall break our gloom to- 
day 101 

Not by the martyr's death alone . . 47 

Not for three or four transgressions . 23 

Not in anything we do 96 

Not unto us, but Thee alone ... 75 
Now fain my joyous heart would 

sing 108 

Now lay we calmly in the grave . . 56 

Now let me close mine eyes ... 92 

Now morning lifts her dewy veil . . 4 

Now, my soul, thy voice upraising . 26 

Now, my tongue, the Mystery telling 50 

Now our work of love is done ... 55 

Now severed is Jordan 48 

Now thank we all our God .... 70 

Now that the daylight fills the sky . 4 

Now the day is over 67 

Now to our Saviour let us raise . 53 

Now with the slow revolving year . 2j 

O Blessed Day, when first was 

poured . 15 

O blessed saint of snow-white purity 40 

O blessed Sun, whose Splendour . . 91 

O bread, to pilgrims given . . . . 51 
O Captain of God's Host, Whose 

dreadful might ....*.. ,42 
O Christ, our Hope, our heart's 

Desire 34 

O Christ, Redeemer of our race . 14 
O Christ, that art the Light and 

Day 21 



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PAGE 

O Christ, the heavens' Eternal 

King 32 

O Christ, Thou Son of Alary . . 43 
O Christ, Who art the Light and 

Day . . 21 

O Christ, Who dost prepare a 

place 35 

O Christ, Who hast prepared a 

place 35 

O come ! all ye faithful 13 

O come and mourn with me awhile . 27 

O come, loud anthems let us sing . 73 

O come ! O come ! Emmanuel . . 10 
O come to the merciful Saviour 

that calls you 59 

O Day most calm, most bright . . 85 

O Day of rest and gladness ... 5 

O death, the change of earthly things S7 

O disclose Thy lovely face .... 3 

O'er the distant mountains breaking 98 

O'er the gloomy hills of darkness . 60 

O'er the realms of pagan darkness . 60 

O'erwhelmed in depths of woe . . 26 

O Everlasting Light 99 

O Father-Eye, that hath so truly 

watched 92 

O FATHER-Heart Who hast created 

all 54 

O Father of mercies, O Spirit of 

Love 70 

O Father, Who didst all things 

make 6 

O Father, Whose Almighty Hand . 70 

O Food that weary pilgrims love . . 51 

O for a closer walk with God ... 90 

O for a heart to praise my God . . 90 
O for the peace that floweth as a 

river 12 

Oft as the bell, with solemn toll . . 57 

Of the Father's Love begotten . . 14 
O glorious Paradise ! O lovely clime ! 103 
O God, bow down Thine Ear on 

earth 67 

O God by WTiom the seed is given . 20 

O God, from Thee alone . . . . 59 
O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore 

Thee 50 

O God, in Whose all-searching Eye 55 

O God, my Strength and Fortitude 71 

O God, of all the strength and power 5 

O God of Bethel, by W T hose Hand . 79 

O God of Hosts, the mighty Lord . 73 

O God of Jacob, by WTiose Hand . 79 

O God of Life, Whose Power benign 38 

O God of Love, how blest are they . 72 

O God of Love, O King ot Peace . 69 

O God of Mercy,. God of Love . . 69 

O God of truth,' O Lord of might . 5 

O God, our help in ages past . . 57, 73 



PAGE 

O God the Sox Eternal, Thy dread 

might 42 

O God, Thy soldiers' great Reward . 46 
O God unseen, yet ever near ... 52 
O God, we raise our hearts to Thee . 58 
O God, Who lovest to abide ... 47 
O God, Who metest in Thine Hand 58 
O Guardian of the Church Divine . 58 
O Guide of faithful Israel .... 55 
O had I, my Saviour, the wings of 

a dove 72 

O happy band of pilgrims . . . .117 
O happy day, that fixed my choice . 56 
O happy is the man who hears . . 79 
O happy saints, who dwell in light . no 
Oh, could we pilgrims raise our 

eyes in 

O heavenly Jerusalem 44 

O heavenly W'ord, eternal Light . n 
O help us, Lord, each hour of need 96 
Oh for an hymn of universal praise . 78 
Oh for the robes of whiteness . . .111 

Oh! happy land above no 

Oh, how could I forget Him ... 51 
Oh, how I long to reach my home . in 
O Holy Lord, content to dwell . . 68 
O Holy Lord, content to live ... 68 
O Holy Saviour, Friend unseen . . 91 
O how many hours of beauty . . .109 
Oh ! Paradise must show more fair . 108 
Oh, that the Lord's Salvation. . . 60 
Oh, the Mystery, passing wonder . 49 
Oh, what, if we are Christ's ... 46 
Oh, what unbounded Zeal and Love 23 
Oh, who are they so pure and bright 57 
Oh ! who shall dare in this frail 

scene 38 

Oh, why should Israel's sons, once 

blest 60 

O Jesu, bruised and wounded more 52 
O Jesu Christ, if aught there be . 22 

O Jesu, God and Man 68 

O Jesu, Lord of Light and Grace . 5 
O Jesu, once for sinners slain ... 52 

O Jesu, O Redeemer 43» 93 

O Jesu, Source of sanctity .... 45 
O Jesu sweet, grant that Thy grace . 8^ 
O Jesu, Thou art standing .' . . . 117 
O Lamb of God, Whose Love 

Divine 47 

O Light, Whose beams illumine all . 68 
O living Bread from heaven ... 51 
O Lord, a wondrous story . . . . 68 
O Lord, how happy should we be . 96 
O Lord, in perfect bliss above . . 19 
O Lord, I would delight in Thee . 97 
O Lord most high, Eternal King . 34 
O Lord, my best desire fulfil ... 90 
O Lord, my heart is sick .... 92 



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O Lord of heaven, and earth, and 

sea 117 

O Lord of Hosts, Whose glory fills. 47 

O Lord, our Lord, in all the world 71 

O Lord, Thou knowest all the snares 97 

O Lord, turn not Thy face from me 22 

O Lord, Who in Thy Love Divine . 58 

O Lord, Who on that last sad eve . 51 

O Love Divine, how sweet thou art . 90 
O Love ! how deep ! how broad ! 

how high 100 

O Love, Who formedst me to wear . 92 

O Maker of the world, give ear . . 20 

O merciful Creator, hear .... 20 

Once again the radiant morning . . 63 

Once in royal David's city .... 62 

Once more, my soul, the rising day . 89 

Once more the solemn season calls . 21 

Once, only once, and once for all . 53 

On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry . 10 

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand . no 

On that Day, that Day of ire . . . 9 
On the fount of Life eternal gazing 

wistful and athirst 106 

On the mountain's top appearing . . 60 

On this Day, the first of days ... 5 

Onward, Christian soldiers .... 48 

O Paradise eternal 112 

O Paradise, O Paradise 118 

Open, Lord, my inward ear ... 90 
O plead my cause, my SAVIOUR, 

plead 72 

O praise our great and gracious 

Lord 117 

O praise the Lord benign . . . . 77 

O praise the Lord, for He is Love . jj 
O praise ye the Lord, prepare your 

glad voice 78 

O praise ye the Lord with heart and 

with voice 78 

O quickly come, dread Judge of all 12 

O Sacred Head, now wounded . . 25 

O Sacred Head, surrounded ... 25 
O Saviour, now at God's Right 

Hand 53 

O Saviour of our earthly race. . . 43 

O Saviour, Who for men hast trod 34 

O Shepherd of the sheep. . . . . 47 
O sing to the Lord, sing out a new 

strain 78 

O sinner, lift the eye of Faith ... 26 

O Sion, open wide thy gates ... 18 

O sons and daughters, let us sing. . 31 

O Spirit of the Living God ... 59 
O Thou from Whom all goodness 

flows 96 

O Thou, the contrite Sinner's Friend 91 

O Thou the heavens' Eternal King . 32 

O Thou, to Whose all searching sight 99 



PAGE 

O Thou, Who earnest from above . 102 
O Thou, Who dost to man accord . 21 
O Thou Who makest souls to shine . 58 
O timely happy, timely wise ... 6 
O Trinity of Blessed Light ... 3 
Our Blest Redeemer, ere He breathed 37 
Our glorious home above . . . .110 
Our God in glory sits on high . . 64 
Our God is Love, and all His Saints 102 
Our God, our help in ages past 57, 73 
Our hearts and voices let us raise . 55 

Our life is often dark 69 

Our Lord is risen from the dead . 72 

Out of the deep I call 22 

Out of the depths of woe .... 76 
O what the joy and the glory must be 116 
O wondrous type, O vision fair . . 41 

O Word of God above 47 

O worship the King 74 

O ye immortal throng 42 

O ye, your Saviour's Name who bear 102 
O Zion, when Thy Saviour came . 60 

Pleasant are Thy courts above . .117 
Pour down Thy Spirit, gracious 

Lord 115 

Pour out Thy Spirit from on high . 58 
Praise and thanks to Thee be sung . 42 
Praise God, Who in the Holiest dwells 78 
Praise, my soul, the King of heaven 74 
Praise, O praise our God and King 70 
Praise, O praise our Heavenly King 70 
Praise the Lord, for He is Love . jj 
Praise the Lord ! Rejoice ye Gentiles ! 12 
Praise the Lord ! ye heavens adore 

Him 78 

Praise to God, immortal praise . . 70 
Praise to God Who reigns above . 42 
Praise to the Holiest in the height . 117 
Praise to the Paschal Victim bring . 32 
Praise we the Lord this day ... 28 
Praise ye the Lord, for good is He . 75 
Precious Bible ! What a treasure ! .115 
Prepare a new song, Jehovah to 

praise 78 

Raise, raise thine eyes a little way . 26 

Rejoice, all ye believers 98 

Rejoice ! the Lord is King . . . .118 

Rejoice, ye pure in heart .... 48 

Resting from His Work to-day . 8, 27 

Rest of the weary 98 

Ride on, ride on in Majesty ... 24 

Rise high, ye notes, a glad ovation . 56 

Rock of Ages, cleft for me . . 27, 95 
Round roll the weeks our hearts to 

greet 37 

Round the Lord in glory seated 

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Sabbath of the saints of old ... 27 
Saints of God, whom faith united . 43 
Saints, the glorious Mother greeting 40 
Save me by Thy glorious Name . . 72 
Saviour, above all heavens ascended 

high 53 

Saviour, again to Thy dear Name 

we raise 7 

Saviour, Blessed Saviour . . .118 
Saviour, sprinkle many nations . . 59 
Saviour, when in dust to Thee . . 23 
Saviour, while we dwell securely . 46 
Saviour, Who Thy flock art feeding 55 
See, He comes ! Whom every nation 12 
Seeing I am Jesu's lamb . . . . 6y 
See the Conqueror mounts in triumph 35 
See the destined day arise . . . .25 

Set upon Sion's wall 58 

Seven times our blessed Saviour 

spake 27 

Shall we not love thee, Mother dear 28 
Shepherd Divine, our wants relieve . 118 
Shepherd of Thine Israel, lead us .no 
Sing Alleluia forth in duteous praise 117 
Sing 4 my soul, the Eternal's praise . 74 
Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle 25 
Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's Glory 50 
Sing, O sing this blessed morn . . 13 
Sing praise to God, W T ho reigns above 118 
Sing the song unheard before . . 73 
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice 74 
Sing we triumphant hymns of praise 34 
Sion's daughter, weep no more . . 26 
Sitting at receipt of customs . , . 41 
Six days of labour now are past . . 8 
Soldiers of Christ ! arise . ... 55 
Soldiers, who are Christ's below . 46 
Songs of praise the Angels sang . . 102 
Songs of thankfulness and praise . 17 
Sox of God, Incarnate Word . . 52 
Son of the Highest, deign to cast . 40 

Soon and for ever 57 

Soon shall the evening star, with 

silver ray 7 

Soul of Jesus, once for me ... 27 
Souls in heathen darkness lying . . 59 
Sow in the morn thy seed .... 59 
Spirit ! leave thine house of clay . . 90 
Spirit of Mercy, Truth, and Love . ^y 
Spirit of Wisdom, guide Thine Own 55 
Spouse of Christ, in arms contending 44 
Spread, O spread, thou mighty Word 59 
Stand up and bless the Lord . . . 102 

Star, of morn and even 68 

Stars of the morning, so gloriously 

bright 42 

Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear 3 



PAGE 

Sweetest joy the soul can know . . 37 
Sweet is the Spirit's strain ... 59 
Sweet place, sweet place alone . .110 
Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go . 6 
Sweet the moments, rich in blessing 27 

Take up thy cross, my soul, nor grieve 24 
Take up thy cross, the Saviour said 23 
Tell me not of earthly love . . . 109 
Tender Shepherd, Thou hast stilled 57 
Thank God, it hath resounded . . 70 
That Day of Wrath, that dreadful 

Day 9 

The Advent of our God .... 10 
The ancient law departs .... 16 
The Apostle slept — a light shone in 

the prison 40 

The Apostles were assembled ... 66 
The Ark of God in safety rode . . 58 
The Banner of the Cross .... 60 
The broken contrite heart oppressed 116 
The choirs of ransomed Israel . . 41 
The Church has waited long ... 98 
The Church's one Foundation . .118 
The dawn is purpling o'er the sky . 29 
The dawn was purpling o'er the sky 30 
The day is past and over .... 6 

The day of resurrection 29 

The earth, O Lord, is one great 

field 58 

Thee, Fount of Blessing, we adore . 38 
The eternal Gifts of Christ the King 45 
The eternal Spirit's Gifts .... 45 
Thee we adore, O hidden Saviour, 

Thee 50 

The faithful men of every land . . 62 
The fish in wave, and bird on wing . 8 
The foe behind, the deep before . . 33 
The God of Abraham praise . . .112 
The God of glory walks His round . 81 
The God of Harvest praise ... 72 
The God W T hom earth, and sea, and 

sky 28 

The great forerunner of the morn . 39 
The happy morn is come .... 33 
The Head that once was crowned with 

thorns 118 

The Heavenly Child in stature grows 16 
The Heavenly Word proceeding 

forth 50 

The heavens declare His glory . . 71 
The hymn for conquering martyrs 

raise (Neale.) 15 

The King of Love my Shepherd is .118 
The Lamb's high banquet called to 

share 30 

The Lamb's high banquet we await . 30 
The last and greatest herald of 

Heaven's King . 40 

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The last loud trumpet's wondrous 

sound 9 

The law commands and makes us 

know 115 

The Life which God's Incarnate 

Word 15 

The Lord descended from above . 71 

The Lord my pasture shall prepare 71 

The Lord of Might from Sinai' s brow 1 1 

The Lord's eternal Gifts .... 45 
The Lord Who hath redeemed our 

souls 72 

The Lord will come ! the earth shall 

quake n 

The ocean hath no danger .... 58 

The people that in darkness sat . . 17 

The race that long in darkness pined 17 

The radiant morn hath passed away 9 

There is a blessed Home .... 109 

There is a book who runs may read . 19 
There is a green hill far away (Mrs. 

Alexander) 63 

There is a happy land 68 

There is a land of pure delight . .110 

There is a River, pure and bright . 72 

There is a stream, which issues forth no 

There's a Friend for little children . 68 

The roseate hues of early dawn . . 3 

The Royal Banners forward go . . 23 

The Saviour ! what a noble flame . 23 
These are the crowns that we shall 

wear no 

These glorious minds, how bright 

they shine 44 

The Shepherd now was smitten . . 18 

The solemn season calls us now . . 21 

The Son of God goes forth to war . 14 

The spacious firmament on high . . 71 

The Spirit breathes upon the Word 115 
The strain upraise of joy and praise, 

Alleluia 19 

The strife is o'er, the battle done . . 31 

The Sunday mom again is here . . 5 

The sun is sinking fast 6 

The sun that lights this happy day . 51 
The table of my heart prepare . .115 
The tomb is empty ; wouldst thou 

have it full 34 

The tribes of Israel revered ... 41 
The unfading crowns by Christ be- 
stowed 46 

The virtues of Thy saints, O Lord . 38 

The voice that breathed o'er Eden . 56 

The waters were Thy path .... 52 

The wise men to Thy cradle throne . 16 
The Word, descending from above 

50 (note) 
The Word of God, the Word of 

Truth 116 



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The Word, with God the Father 

one 15 

The world is very evil 104 

They are all gone into the world of 

Light 87 

They come, God's Messengers of 

Love 42 

The year begins with Thee . . . . 16 

The year is gone beyond recall . . 16 

They that toil upon the deep ... 58 

Thine Arm, O Lord, in days of old . 118 
Thine for ever, God of Love . . .118 

Think on the mercy of our God . . 64 

Thirsts my weary spirit 106 

This day sent forth His heralds bold 57 

This is My Body, take and eat . . 53 
This is not my place of resting . .110 

This is the day of light 5 

This is the day the Lord hath made 75 

This stone to, thee in faith we lay. . 47 

Those eternal bowers 44 

Thou art gone to the grave, but we 

will not deplore thee 57 

Thou art gone up, O Lord, on high c6 

Thou art gone up on high .... 35 

Thou art the Way, by Thee alone . 38 

Thou art the Way, to Thee alone . 38 

Thou, Barnabas, hast won repose . 39 
Though blossoms all from fig-trees 

fall 80 

Though sorrows rise, and dangers roll 41 

Thou glorious Sun of Righteousness 5 

Thou God of Truth and Love . . 56 

Thou gracious God, and kind ... 73 

Thou, great Creator, art possessed . 19 

Thou hallowed chosen morn of praise 29 

Thou hast a temple founded ... 98 
Thou hidden love of God, whose 

height 90 

Thou Judge of quick and dead . . 12 

Thou New Jerusalem, arise and shine 104 

Thou spak'st the Word, and into one 8 

Thou that art the Father's Word . 97 

Thou that once, on mother's knee . 67 

Thou,W T hoof old didst hush the storm 53 

Thou, Who on that wondrous journey 102 

Thou, Whose Almighty Word . . 59 

Three in One and One in Three . 6 

Thrice Blessed Word of God ... 64 
Through all the changing scenes of 

life 72 

Throughout this earth in stillness. . 92 
Through the day Thy love hath 

spared us 6 

Thy Cross, O Lord, the holy sign . 68 

Thy kingdom come, O God ... 17 

Thy Parents' arms now yield thee . 54 

Thy way, not mine, O Lord ... 92 
Thy W T ord, Almighty Lord . . .116 



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Thy Word, O Lord, like gentle dews 114 

Thy works, not mine, O Christ . . 23 

Till its holy hours are past .... 34 
'Tis done ; that new and heavenly 

Birth . . . . - '.55 

'Tis for conquering kings to gain . . 16 

'Tis the day of resurrection. ... 29 

To bless Thy chosen race .... 73 

To Christ, the Prince of Peace . . 101 

To-day in Thine Apostle shine . . 18 

To-day, O Lord, a holier work . . 8 

To-day, O Lord, the holy James . 41 

To-day our Lord went up on high . 35 

To God above from all below . . . 75 

To God the only wise 80 

To God thy way commending . . 109 

To grace, O Lord, a marriage feast 56 

To Sion's hill I lift mine eyes ... 76 
To Thee, my God, Whose Presence 

fills 91 

To Thee, O Lord, our hearts we 

raise 70 

To Thee we come, our Saviour dear 7 

To the Name of our Salvation . . 16 

To the Name that brings Salvation . 16 

To the Paschal Victim 32 

To Thy blest courts, great God and 

King 55 

Tribulation, pain, and woe . . . .111 
True Bread of Life, in pitying mercy 

given ' .... 52 

'Twas at evening, when the voice of 

greeting 63 



Upon the sixth day of the week . . 
Up, soldiers of the Saviour's Cross 



27 



Victim Divine, Thy grace we claim . 52 

Virgin-born, we bow before Thee . . 40 

Vital spark of heavenly flame . . . 57 

Wake, the welcome day appeareth . 1 1 
We are but little children weak (Mrs. 

Alexander) 63 

Weary of earth, and laden with my 

sin 22 

We come, our hearts with gladness 

glowing 70 

We give Thee but Thine own . . .117 
We have no home but Heaven . .112 

We have not seen, we cannot see. . 12 
We know Thee Who Thou art . .118 

Welcome, happy morning .... 32 

We love the place, O God .... 102 

We plough the fields and scatter . . 70 
We saw Thee not when Thou didst 

come 96 

We see no contradicting cause . . 56 

We sing the praise of Him W 7 ho died 24 



PAGE 

We speak of the realms of the blest 1 1 1 

We've no abiding city here . . . . 112 

We walk by faith, and not by sight . 96 
We were baptized into the Saviour's 

death 81 

We were washed in holy water . . 63 

What are these arrayed in white . . 44 
What are these in bright array . .112 

What countless crowd on Sion stauds 44 

W 7 hat happy men or angels these . . 44 

What mean ye by this wailing. . . 91 
What no human eye hath seen . .109 

What our Father does is well . . 69 
W r hat star is this with beams so 

bright 17 

W T hat various hindrances we meet . 118 
When across the heart deep waves of 

sorrow 99 

When at Thy footstool, Lord, I 

bend 91 

When Christ the Lord would come 

on earth 40 

When darkness fleets, and joyful 

earth 21 

When gathering clouds around I 

view 69 

Wlien God of old came down from 

heaven 36 

When, His salvation bringing ... 68 

When I can read my title clear . . 89 

When in the hour of utmost need . 69 

When I survey the wondrous Cross . 89 

When Jesus came to earth of old . n 

W r hen languor and disease invade . 99 

When morning gilds the skies ... 4 

When on Sinai's top I see .... 41 

When our heads are bowed in woe . 57 
When prayer delights thee least, then 

learn to say 94 

When quiet in my house I sit . . .115 
When shades of night around us 

close 10 

When sink our hearts in famine sore 53 
When the blest seed of Terah's faith- 
ful son 75 

When the Lord of Hosts ascended . 36 

When the loving Shepherd . . . . 51 

When the soft dews of kindly sleep . 3 
When this passing world is done . .112 
When Thou, O Lord, didst send the 

twelve 43 

When to the House of God we go . 65 

When we did sit in Babylon . . . jj 

When we, our weary limbs to rest . jy 
When wounded sore, the stricken 

heart 97 

Where high the heavenly Temple 

stands 79 

While my Jesus I'm possessing . . 27 



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Index. 



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While now the daylight fills the sky . 4 

While shepherds watched their flocks 12 

Who are these like stars appearing . 44 

Who are those before God's throne . 44 

Who cometh here from Edom's rocks 82 

Who is this with garments gory . . 82 
Whom have we, Lord, in heaven 

but Thee 73 

Why, impious Herod, vainly fear . . 16 

Why should I fear the darkest hour . 90 
With all the powers my poor soul 

hath 88 

With Christ we share a mystic 

grave 27, 55 

With hearts in love abounding . . 72 



PAGE 

With one consent let all the earth . 74 
With Thee, Lord, will I walk by 

day 3 

Word of Life, Thou fountain bright 114 
Words of Eternal Life to me . . .116 

Word supreme, before creation . . 15 

Ye captains of a heavenly host . . 45 

Ye choirs of New Jerusalem ... 30 

Ye faithful, approach ye .... 13 

Ye nations round the earth, rejoice . 74 

Ye servants of a martyred Lord . . 46 

Ye servants of the Lord 98 

Ye sons and daughters of the King . 31 

Yesterday with exultation .... 14 



LATIN. 



Ad coenam Agni providi .... 30 

Adeste, fideles 13 

Adoro Te devote, latens Deitas 50, 88 
Ad perennis vitas fontem mens sitivit 

arida 84, 106 

Ad regias Agni dapes 30 

Ad templa nos rursus vocat ... 4 
^Eterna Christi munera, Afiosto- 

lorum 45 

Sterna Christi munera, Et mar- 

tyrum 46 

^Eterne Rex Altissime 34 

Alleluia, dulce carmen 19 

Alleluia piis edite laudibus . . . .117 

Amor Jesu dulcissimus 99 

Angulare, Fundamentum .... 47 

Apparuit Benignitas 100 

Arte mira, miro consilio 59 

Attolle paulum lumina 25 

Audi, benigne Conditor 20 

Aurora ccelum purpurat 29 

Aurora lucis rutilat 29 

Ave ! Caro Christi Regis .... 51 

Ave, colenda Trinitas 38 

Beata nobis gaudia 37 

Cantemus cuncti melodum nunc Alle- 
luia ........... 19 

Chorus Novae Jerusalem .... 30 

Christe Qui Lux es et Dies ... 21 

Christe sanctorum Decus angelorum 42 

Christi perennes nuntii 45 

Clamantis ecce vox sonans . . .17, 4° 

Ccelestis Aulas Principes . • • • 45 

Ccelestis formam gloriae 41 

Ccelestis O Jerusalem 44 

Ccelo datur quiescere 39 

Conditor alme siderum n 



Corde natus ex Parentis ante 

mundi exordium 14 

Crucem sequentes prasviam ... 89 

Crudelis Herodes, Deum .... 16 

Da, puer, plectrum choreis ut canam 

fidelibus 13 

Debilis cessent elementa legis ... 16 

Dei canamus Gloriam 8 

Deus Tuorum militum 46 

Die dierum principe 4 

Die parente temporum 5 

Dies Iras, Dies ilia 9 

Dignare me, O Jesu, rogo Te . . 23 

Divine crescebas Puer 16 

Ecce Dies Celebris 33 

Ecce Panis Angelorum 50 

Ecce tempus idoneum 21 

Ecquis binas columbinas . . . .101 

En clara vox redarguit n 

En Dies est Dominica 5 

Ex more docti mystico .... 21 

Ex quo, Salus mortalium .... 46 

Exsultet cor praecordiis 16 

Felix Dies, quam proprio .... 15 

Festum Matris gloriosae 40 

Finita jam sunt praelia 31 

Fortem virili pectore 47 

Forti tegente Brachio 30 

Gloria, laus, et honor 24 

Gloriosi Salvatoris 16 

Fieri mundus exsultavit 14 

Herodes hostis impie 16 

Hie breve vivitur, hie breve plangitur, 

hie breve fletur 104 



Index. 



133 



PAGE 

Hodiernae Lux diei 51 

Hora novissima, tempora pessima 

sunt, vigilemus 104 

Hymnum canamus gloriae .... 34 

Hymnura canentes martyrum ... 15 

In Domo Patrts 106 

In noctis umbra, desides 10 

In Passione Domini . . . .... 25 

Instantis Adventum Dei .... 10 

Inter sulphurei fulgura turbinis . . 36 

Ira justa Conditoris 26 

Isdem creati fluctibus 8 

Jam Christus astra ascenderat . . 37 

Jam desinant suspiria] 12 . 

Jam lucis orto sidere 4 

Jam sanctius moves opus .... 8 

Jam sol recedit igneus 6 

Jerusalem luminosa 106 

Jam moesta quiesce querela ... 57 

Jesu, Corona virginum 47 

Jesu, Decus Angelicum 100 

Jesu, Dulcedo Cordium 51 

Jesu, dulcis memoria .... 51, 99 

Jesu dulcissime e Throno Glorias . 59 

Jesu mi dulcissime 101 

Jesu, nostra Redemptio. . * . . 34 

Jesu Redemptor omnium .... 14 

Jesu, Salvator saeculi 32 

Jordanis oras praevia 10 

Jubes, et in praeceps aquis .... 8 

Jucundare, plebs fidelis 46 

Jussu tyranni pro Fide 15 

Labente jam solis rota 6 

Lapsus est annus ; redit annus alter . 16 

Lauda, Syon, Salvatorem .... 50 

Lucis Creator optime 7 

Lugete, pacis angeli 26 

Lustra sex Qui jam peregit .... 25 

Matutinus altiora 6 

Media, in vita, in morte sumus . . $j 

Miramur, O Deus, Tuae .... 8 

Nee quisquam oculis vidit .... 107 

Nobis, Olympo redditus 35 

Non parta solo sanguine .... 47 

Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritus . . 5 

Nunc suis tandem novus e latebris . 39 

O Amor quam exstaticus .... 100 

O beata beatorum 46 

O bona Patria, lumina sobria te 

speculantur 104 

O Deus, ego amo Te 26 

Q Esca viatorum ....... 51 

O IHii et filiae ... .... 31 



PAGE 

O Luce Quae Tua lates 38 

O Luce Qui mortalibus 7 

O Lux Beata, Tr in it as .... 6 

O nata Lux de lumine 41 

O nimis felix, meritique celsi ... 40 

Opprobriis, Jesu, satur 27 

Opus peregisti Tuum 34 

O quanta qualia sunt ilia Sabbata. . 116 

O qui tuo, dux martyrum .... 14 
O sol salutis, intimis . . . 



Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis 
Pange lingua gloriosi Lauream 
Pastore percusso, minas . . 
Patris aeterni Soboles coaeva 
Praecursor altus Luminis 
Prome vocem, mens, canoram 
Pugnate Christi milites . 

Quae dixit, egit, pertulit . . 
Quae Stella sole pulchrior . 
Quern terra, pontus, aethera 
Quicumque certum quaeritis 
Quisquis valet numerare . . 
Quos in hostes, Saule, tendis 



Rebus creatis nil egens . . 
Recolamus sacram Ccenam 
Rector potens, verax Deus . 
Rerum Deus tenax vigor . 
Rex Sempiterne ccelitum 



50 
25 
18 

47 
39 
26 
46 

15 
1.7 
28 
101 
106 
18 

19 

5i 

5 

5 
32 



Sacris solemniis juncta sint gaudia . 50 

Saevo dolorum turbine 26 

Salve Caput cruentatum 25 

Salutis humanas Sator 35 

Salve Festa Dies, toto venerabilis aevo 32 

Salvete flores martyrum 15 

Sancti, venite, Corpus Christi sumite 51 

Solemne nos jejunii 21 

Sol praeceps rapitur, proxima nox 

adest 6 

Splendor Paternae Glorias .... 5 

Sponsa Christi quae per orbem . . 45 

Stabat Mater dolorosa 25 

Summi Largitor praemii 21 

Summi Parentis Filio . . . . 101 

Summi Parentis Unice .... 41 
Supreme Motor cordium . . . 8, 20 

Supreme, quales, Arbiter .... 45 

Supreme Rector ccelitum .... 36 

Tandem peractis, O Deus .... 8 
Te Deum Patrem colimus [Magd. 

Coll. Hymn) 38 

Te laeta, mundi Conditor .... 19 

Te lucis ante terminum 6 

Templi sacratas pande, Syon, fores . 18 

Tu Trinitatis Unitas .... 6 



J 34 



Judex. 



PAGE 

Urbs beata Hirusalem . . . .47,107 
Urbs Syon aurea.. Patria lactea, cive 

decora .- . . 105 

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris . . 39 

Veni Creator Spiritus . . .36, 55, 58 

VeniSANCTE-SPIRITUS 36 

Venit e ccelo Mediator alto . . . 26 
Veni, veni, Emmanuel . . . . . 10 

Verbi vere substantivi 15 

Verbum Dei, Deo natum .... 15 



PAGE 

Verbum Quod ante ssecula ... 15 
Verbum Supermini prodiens, A 

Patre n 

Verbum Supermini prodiens, Nee. . 50 

Vexilla Regis prodeunt ..... 23 

Victims Paschali laudes .... 32 

Victis sibi cognomina ..... 16 

Vos ante Christi tempora. ... 20 

Zyma vetus expurgetur . . . . . 33 



FRENCH. 



Heureux, qui, loin de tout le monde . 90 
L' Amour me tient asservie . . . . 90 



Nuit, que vous metes favorable . . 90 
Tous sont obliges de T 'aimer . . . 90 



GREEK. 



' AvaaT acred) s rffiipa .29 

"Aaojfj.ev, iravres \&ol . . . . , 29 
Avt7] i] kXtjtt} 29 

'Irjcrods 6 £o)o86t7)S 35 

Kottoz/ re /cat Ka/marop 117 

Me7a to Mvar^pcop 49 

, Opdpi<TQ)iuLej> 6p6pov fSadeos .... 29 
Ov yap (3\e7reLS roi)s rapdrropras . 21 

2i7^crdrw iraaa cra/){ j3poreia ...51 



Tas idpqis tols alcavlas 43 

Ttjp } FtdeiuiBr)dX€€/x7JvoL^e,d€dT€td(x)jUL6P 104 

T^ 7]/uL€pav dieXd&p 6 

To jmeya Mvarrfpiop 49 

To; BacnXet /cat AecrroTr] .... 14 
Ta)^ dfxapriCov [xov rr\v irXrjdvp . . 21 
Twp iep&v a6Xo<p6pwp. . . . 44 & 46 

<f>a;s iXapop 7 

$(a)ti£ov, (purifov 104 

Xopds 'laparjX 41 



GERMAN. 



yidj Hetb mit $>einer ©nabe . . 

%tf), mtg nrirb bag <§er$ fo leer . 

Sitter ©(aitb'gen ^ammelplafc . 

2luf, cutf, ifyr ^eidjSgenoffen . . 
Slttf ! Sluf ! toeil ber Sag erfdjemen 

2luf btefen Sag bebenfen nrir . . 

2luS beinec (£Uern 2lrmen. . . 



23eftel){ bu beine 2Bege ... 
JBtimtt alU$ %tiU, 3)ic$ el;ren ruir 

(S t)ri ft (ag in SobeSbanben . . 
(SfyriftuS ift erftanben . . . 



3) a SefuS an beg $reit$e8 <§tamm 
3)a3 Seben imrb oft tvubc . . . 
5)a8 $arabie3 mup fcfyoner fetn . 
2)ein 2Bort, £) £err, ift milber £!jau 
2)er @(aub' ift eine lebenbige itraft . 



109 

56 

n 
11 

35 

54 

109 
3« 

33 
32 

27 

69 

108 

114 

98 



@f)r imb £>an? fet 2>tr gefungen 
(frbebt cud?, fro!)e SubeUieber 
femtntert cud), xfyx Srommeit 
©mac!)', 3)ienfcf?, ertuactye . 
(£g ift geimfj lid? an ber 3eit . 
@3 jie^t ein [titter @ngel . . 



©el)' au3, mein .£erj. unb fuc^e Sreub' 
@e(obt fet) 3 efuS (5$ rift . . 
©ib 3)eincn Sriebcn unS, £e 
©ott beg <§immeU unb ber @vten 
©ott lob, ttun ift erfc^otten . . 
©uter £ivt, £>u ^aft geftittt . . 

•§erjtic^ t^ut mid) erfreuen . . 
%ut' I) at ber grof e ^imme(gl;err 
£imraelraftrt$ ge^t unfere 5Ba()it . 
«6o^t;eUige 2)reietnig!eit 



42 
56 
98 
21 
11 
92 

109 

4 
69 

4 
70 

57 

io8 ; 

37 
109 

3* 



Index. 



135 



PAGE 
I09 

55 

95 

98 

102 

70 

107 
5i 

99 
32 
32 

flommt, SSruber, tajjt un§ rcljen . . .109 

SieOe, 5)t€ £>u mid) 511m SBtlfcc ... 92 
Siebfter 3 efu, fyier ftnb ttrit . - - - 54 

Sttein £ e 1 1 nub © 1 1 , £)e§ outer £anb 9 1 
9Rein 3 cfu, bcr 5) u cor bem Sd)eiben . 51 
SJtttten toir in Sefcen ftnb 57 



3d) tun eiit ©aft auf ©rben . . , 
3d) bin getauft auf $>eiiten Seamen . 
3d) glaube, §atletuia$ ! . . . . 
3d) njctp an QBen id) gfaube . . . 
3br tic tfju end) von (Sbrtfto nennt 
3m 2lnfang ttjar'S auf (5*rben. . . 

Serufutcm, bit bocbgebaute @>tdbt 
3 cfu tev $>u 6ifi attetne . . . . 
3 efu, gen' ooran 

3efu3 tebtl mit 3bm aud) u*) . . 
3efu5 meine 3ut?erfic$t . . . . 



9lunbanfet atte ©ott . . . 
SSlww lajft unS ben £eib begraben . 



70 

56 



D 5)u atterfiifite ftreube 37 

£) £aupt, soil 33 hit unb £Bunben . . 25 
£) 3 cfu, meine Sonne . ..." 91 



O SSatcvljanb, tic mtd) fo trcu gefiibret 



O SBaier$er$ ba3 (vrb' unb -fcimmcl 
O mie mand;e fd;bne etunbe . 



fd;uf 



Saget miv von feinen £ieben . . 
Sep Sob unb (Sbi*' bem I)5d)ftcn ®ut 
<Ste!j nne liebltd) ifTg unb fein . 

3Satcr, "oon bem I)6d)ften £(jron. 
3Serboraue ©otteoliebe J£)u . . 
3Serjage nid)t, bu «§ftttfJcin Rein . 

SBalte, njalte nal) unb fern . . 
SBaS ©ott tfcut, bag ift too^lgetfian 
2£as fein 2luge f)att gefel;en . . 
2©a3 madjt U;r, baft ibr xvdn et . 
£Beit id) 3cf u Sdjafiein bin 
SQBenn h?ir in pdjften dlbtbm fein 
-iBerbe lid)t, bu Statt tev £eiten 
2©er ftnb bie oor ©otteS Serene 
£8te fonnt id) Sein uergeffett . . 
2Bte ujo&l $aft 3)u gelabet . . 
SBirb ba§ nid)t ^reube fein . . 
£8tr fommen, 5£>eine«$ulb $u etcrn 
2Biv fcftugen unb fair ftreuen . . 
28ort bes Sefceng, lautre Guefle . 

Stutyfyn, mein itinb .... 



PAG 
92 

54 
109 

109 
118 



34 
90 



59 
69 
109 

9i 

68 
69 
16 
44 
5i 
5* 
68 
70 
70 
114 



iJorfaraS t[, bu ft'tta \)ty . 



SWEDISH. 

. . . 98 Siung, mitt fjat ! ben CHgeS tcf . . 74 



Partendo dal Mondo l'amante Pas- 
tore 



ITALIAN. 

I Viva ! Viva ! Gesu 



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